18 Associate Editors resign from Statistics and Computing editorial board: Problems with commercial scholarly publishing, and what does this all mean?

🫧 Open on Bubbles I was cc-ed on a message sent by 18 members of the board of the journal Statistics and Computing, quitting their posts because the publisher (Springer) has announced a new policy whereby all authors will have to pay publication charges. The soon-to-be-former associate editors write, “Statistics and Computing will no longer publish the best science, both due to financial exclusion of those researchers who cannot afford to pay, and those community-minded researchers who refuse to pay on prin