ABOVE: Nine of the professors who signed the letter are at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Faculty members at a number University of California schools have stopped serving on the editorial boards of journals published by Cell Press in protest of its parent company, Elsevier, not having reached a deal with UC for access to its publications. The 31 signatories of a letter to Elsevier, posted yesterday (August 7) online, write that unless Elsevier and UC can agree upon a new contract, they will not serve on the boards of Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Current Biology, and others.
“This is a way of drawing attention to the issue,” Matthew Welch, a UC Berkeley molecular and cell biologist who helped draft the letter, says in a press release. He had served on the editorial board of Cell. “This is not going to affect the day-to-day operation of the journals in ...
