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💁‍♂️🎉 Hopefully this wave of editorial boards at prestigious journals suddenly cutting ties with commercial publishers en masse to set up open access alternatives continues.

Mass editorial resignation at Philosophy & Public Affairs. "We take this step because we believe that scholarly journals—including our own—serve important purposes, and that these purposes are not well-served by commercial publishing."

Editors at Philosophy & Public Affairs Resign; Will Launch New OA Journaldailynous.com The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have resig...

There was this recent one...

Springer Nature decides to "change the direction" of sociology journal Theory and Society and asks the editorial board to resign...which they do and set up their own new open access journal: Theory and Social Inquiry. #Sociology

introducing theory and social inquiryscatter.wordpress.com The below is a letter from the editorial board of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry. Here is the statement in its original PDF form. While I had no hand in this, I wholly endorse the endeavor. ...