"It was a very well-ranked journal with a high-quality editorial board. But financial pressures in publishing helped dictate that decision. I was aware of what Timothy Gowers - Field Medalist and highly respected mathematician - had done during what was referred to as the Academic Spring when there was pushback on the transfer of copyright issue that many journal publishers - Elsevier and others - were involved in. [...] What I’ve said repeatedly, including when I pitched this to our managing editors, is that what researchers want is access to papers. [...] They’re less concerned about the publisher, but more concerned with the editorial quality of the journal."

“What we have now is a status quo that is a potential threat to the entire scientific endeavor, both from an access perspective and from a content perspective, and the three models being pushed as potential solutions are not sustainable, either. The need for drastic reform has never been so pressing.

Only the existing model of Scholastica, Ubiquity, etc. is sustainable, as it allows for switching publication services, without interruption of service or access to content. Publishing in the future will be a service, not a content-hoarding-and-extortion business.”