Editors of economics journal resign after association renews Taylor & Francis contract
Forty-one editors, associate editors and advisory board members resigned from their roles at the Review of Social Economy after the Association for Social Economics, which owns the journal, renewed its contract with publisher Taylor & Francis. The resigning members, who cited concerns the publisher would eventually transition the journal to a model based wholly on … Continue reading Editors of…
The Review of Social Economy, a hybrid open access economics journal, lost 41 of its highest-ranking editors and advisory board members after the Association for Social Economics (ASE) opted to extend its contract with publisher Taylor & Francis. The resigning members were unhappy about potential future changes to the journal's revenue model, which they believed would shift to a fully author-publishing-fee model.
The coeditors of the journal, including Roberto Veneziani, professor at Queen Mary University of London, resigned on July 4, followed by 37 associate editors and advisory board members on July 10. ASE denied the journal would transition to a fully open access model, stating it would have "major implications for ASE's revenues and operations."
The remaining four coeditors, along with the exodus, brought the total resignations to 56, a figure that has made it onto The Mass Resignation List. Former editor Veneziani claims Taylor & Francis has signaled that the journal will eventually shift to a fully open access model, but a spokesperson for the publisher stated the journal would remain hybrid for the "immediate future."
The journal, which allows authors to choose between open access or subscription, is currently planning to launch its own diamond open access journal, the Journal of Social Economy and Philosophy, under Stanford University Press.
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