Almost all members of the editorial board of the journal Critical Public Health have resigned due to differences with the scientific publisher Taylor & Francis. The background to the disputes is the publisher's demand to change the business model completely to the author pays model, in which fees – so-called article processing charges (APCs) – are demanded from the authors. The protest is also directed against the amount of APCs to be paid, which most recently amounted to 2,700 pounds (about 3,500 euros) per published article. The former editorial board has already announced the founding of a new journal: the Journal of Critical Public Health (JCPH). The new journal is owned by a non-profit scientific community: It is published by the Canadian University of Calgary and owned by the Critical Public Health Network, a UK-based scientific organisation.
Not an isolated case: protest against high fees also at Elsevier
Back in April of this year, all members of the editorial board of Elsevier's journal NeuroImage resigned in protest over excessive author fees (open-access.network reported). In 2015, a similar incident occurred at the journal Lingua, also run by Elsevier: there, the former members of the editorial board founded the OA journal Glossa at Ubiquity Press at University College London after resigning.
To the original press release from JCHP: https://cphn.net/breaking-news/