The latest in the battle over open-access and subscription policies of Elsevier and an association of German libraries, universities, and research institutes is the resignation of five leading German scientists from the editorial board of journals published by Elsevier. The researchers want Elsevier to accept a new payment model that would make all papers authored by Germany-based researchers open access.
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