The Last Straw

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Chris Chambers is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Cardiff University. He was part of the resigning editorial team at New Year Image and New Year Image reports. The whole board resigned from neuro image, which is published by Elsevier. Chris: "We can choose to say no to these publishers if we want to, but we need to act collectively"

More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the ‘greed’ of the publisher. Ian Sample speaks to correspondent Hannah Devlin about the remarkably lucrative business of scientific publishing, hears from Prof Chris Chambers about what was behind the recent mass resignation, and finds out why researchers are demanding change. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod