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The 40 members of the editorial board of NeuroImage, an open access journal considered a leader in the field of neuroscience, have announced in a letter dated 18 April 2023 that they – including the four chief editors – have collectively resigned. With this step, they are protesting against what they see as the excessively high publication fees (Article Processing Charges – APCs) of 3,450 dollars charged by the scientific publisher Elsevier for publications in the journal. According to the editors, they had previously tried in vain to persuade the publisher to lower the fees. The entire former team is now founding the open access journal Imaging Neuroscience with the aim of becoming the leading journal in the field of neuroscience.

Keeping publication fees as low as possible

In founding Imaging Neuroscience, the team is working together with the publisher MIT Press. APCs are to be kept as low as possible and the price level is to be no more than half of the fees previously estimated by Elsevier, with no publication fees at all for authors of articles from low- or middle-income countries. The quality level as well as the overall scope of NeuroImage, on the other hand, is to be maintained by the corresponding former editorial board. In their announcement, the signatories regret that it had to come to this resignation. However, according to their own statements, they saw no other option, as in their view a journal with such high APCs could not be successful in the long term due to researchers' reservations in view of too high costs for publication and access.

The public announcement of the resignation by the former members of the editorial board of the open access journal NeuroImage can be found at the following link: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf


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