One of the world’s largest scientific publishers refused to reduce its $3,450 fee to publish in NeuroImage. All the editors left to start their own journal. Elsevier, which says it disseminated about ...

The scholars’ exodus from Elsevier’s “NeuroImage” shines a spotlight on the difficult economics of academic publishing and the open-access movement.

Journals such as NeuroImage and thousands of others charge authors APCs to cover publishing costs, such as administration, editing and typesetting. In return, when these papers are published, they ...