From: "Jean-Claude Guédon" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 11:50:10 -0500 The article below (thanks to Colin Steele) is an example of a courageous move that must be supported by the libraries: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees With regard to the Lingua (now Glossa) editorial board, l ibraries could, for example, 1. Remove access to Lingua going forward (keep access to archive up to December 31st, 2015) if caught in a Big Deal; remove Lingua from subscriptions, starting in 2016, if not in a Big Deal 2. Support Glossa (the new journal) financially, 3. Promote Glossa widely. ERIH is already classifying the new journal at the level of its current status by arguing that the quality of a journal is linked to the editors and editorial board, and not to the publisher. Researchers in linguistics, of course, should boycott Elsevier's Lingua from now on. This event also demonstrates the importance for Learned and scientific societies not to sell the title of their journals to publishers. So long as we foolishly evaluate research according to the place where it is published (i.e. a journal title), publishers will hold a strong trump card. Finally, this event displays the incredible behaviour of the multinational, commercial, publishers with particular clarity. These are not the friends of the scientific communication system we need. Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal