Lista de periódicos que declararam independência

Journal declarations of independence

(Fonte: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#declarations)

Declaration of independence mean the resignation of editors from a journal in order to launch a comparable journal with a friendlier publisher. It's has two stages. First, an editor or group of editors resigns from the journal in order to protest its high subscription price or audience-limiting access rules. This is usually accompanied by a public statement explaining "the causes which impel them to the separation". Second, some of the resigning editors create a new free or affordable alternative journal to compete with the first and to embody their vision of wide access.

* Chronological order.

1. In June 1989, Editor Eddy van der Maarel and most of his editorial board resigned from Vegetatio (W. Junk, then Nijhoff, then Kluwer) in order to launch the Journal of Vegetation Science (Opulus Press and the International Association for Vegetation Science).
* [old journal, new name] Plant Ecology
* [new journal] Journal of Vegetation Science
* Robert Peet's brief account of the background
* Van der Maarel's statement on the background of his resignation. November 8, 1998.
* Van der Maarel's editorial for the first issue Journal of Vegetation Science (February 1990) on the need for the new journal.
* JVS became a SPARC partner in March 2002.

2. In December 1996, Shu-Kun Lin resigned as editor of Molecules, then published by Springer-Verlag, and relaunched the journal with Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI). Springer sued to prevent Shu-Kun Lin from using the same for the MDPI journal but eventually dropped its suit.
* [old journal] Molecules (from Springer-Verlag)
* [new journal] Molecules (from MDPI)
* Brief public statement from Shu-Kun Lin about the transition.

3. In November 1998, Michael Rosenzweig and the rest of his editorial board resigned from Evolutionary Ecology (Chapman & Hall, then International Thomson, now Kluwer), which Rosenzweig had launched in 1986, in order to create Evolutionary Ecology Research. Its birth and early survival were assisted by SPARC.
* [old journal] Evolutionary Ecology
* [new journal] Evolutionary Ecology Research
* Michael Rosenzweig's statement on the background of his resignation. April 11, 1999.

4. In 1998 most of the editorial board of the Journal of Academic Librarianship resigned to protest the large hike in the subscription price imposed by Pergamon-Elsevier after it bought the journal from JAI Press. Several of the editors who resigned then created Portal: Libraries and the Academy at Johns Hopkins University Press.
* [old journal] Journal of Academic Librarianship.
* [new journal] Portal: Libraries and the Academy.
* Gloriana St. Clair's statement in Portal 1.1 on the need for Portal. Accessible only to paid MUSE subscribers.
* Steve McKinzie and Jocelyn Godolphin's comments on the resignations
* Tony Seward's reply and correction to McKenzie's comments.
* Coverage in FOSN for 10/26/01.

5. In November 1999, the entire 50 person editorial board of the Journal of Logic Programming (Elsevier) resigned and formed a new journal, Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Cambridge). Its birth and early survival were assisted by SPARC.
* [old journal, new name] Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming
* [new journal] Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. Page at Cambridge University Press.
* [new journal] Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. Page at the Association for Logic Programming.
* Coverage in FOSN for 5/11/01.

6. In January 2000 (to take effect in July 2000), Henry Hagedorn resigned as editor of the Archives of Insect Biochemistry & Physiology (Wiley-Liss) in order to form the Journal of Insect Science (University of Arizona library). JIS is a free online journal with no print edition. It plans to offset the costs of online publication with author fees. Its birth and early survival were assisted by SPARC.
* [old journal] Archives of Insect Biochemistry & Physiology
* [new journal] Journal of Insect Science
* Henry Hagedorn's letter of resignation and call for change

7. Early in 2001, a handful of editors of Topology and Its Applications (Elsevier) resigned in order to create Algebraic and Geometric Topology (University of Warwick and International Press), a free online journal with an annual printed volume. Its birth and early survival were assisted by SPARC.
* [old journal] Topology and Its Applications
* [new journal] Algebraic and Geometric Topology
* Joan Birman's statement on some of the background of the resignations.
* Hanes Miller's public letter of resignation.
* SPARC's press release on the launch of Algebraic and Geometric Topology.

8. Over a nine month period in 2001, forty editors of Machine Learning (Kluwer) resigned from the editorial board and published their reasons in a public letter dated October 8, 2001. One of those resigning, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, created the Journal of Machine Learning Research as a free online alternative with a quarterly print edition published by MIT Press. About two-thirds of the Machine Learning editors joined her at the new journal
* [old journal] Machine Learning (a.k.a. Machine Learning Journal)
* [new journal] Journal of Machine Learning Research
* Public letter of resignation. October 8, 2001.
* Coverage in FOSN for 10/12/01. Further details in FOSN for 10/19/01.

9. Elsevier has published the European Economic Review since 1969. In 1986 the European Economic Association (EEA) adopted it as its official journal. But the EEA grew increasingly unhappy with Elsevier's subscription price and its requirement that the publisher, not the association, hire the journal's editors. In 2001 the EEA started the process of declaring independence from Elsevier. In March 2003 its new official journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, was launched by MIT Press at about one-third of the Elsevier subscription price.
* [old journal] European Economic Review
* [new journal] Journal of the European Economic Association
* European Economic Association
* The JEEA's page on its history and decision to break with Elsevier.
* Coverage in the March 21, 2003 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (story accessible only to CHE subscribers).

10. On July 3, 2003, The entire 40+ person editorial board Labor History (Taylor and Francis) resigned in protest over the journal's high subscription price and lack of editorial independence. The same editors then launched Labor with non-profit Duke University Press. Labor is a partner of SPARC, which assisted in the transition and launch.
* [old journal] Labor History
* [new journal] Labor: Studies in Working Class History in the Americas
* SPARC press release

11. On August 13, 2003, the Society for the Internet in Medicine named the open-access Journal of Medical Internet Research as its new official journal, replacing the subscription-based Medical Informatics & Internet in Medicine. (This is a decision by a scholarly society, not journal editors, but I include it on the list because of the family resemblance to a true declaration of independence.)
* [old journal] Medical Informatics & and Internet in Medicine
* [new journal] Journal of Medical Internet Research
* Society for the Internet in Medicine

12. On September 22, 2003, Compositio Mathematica announced that it was leaving Kluwer to be published by the London Mathematical Society and distributed by Cambridge University Press (starting in January 2004). The journal's editor of 20+ years, Gerard van der Geer, explained in a public note that the move was triggered by a long series of unwanted Kluwer price increases. The LMS edition of the journal is not free, but priced one-third below the former price.
* Compositio Mathematica (its publisher-independent home page)
* [old journal] former home page at Kluwer
* [new journal] new home page at LMS and Cambridge
* Gerard van der Geer's public statement of the reasons for the move, published in the May 2004 issue of the Notices of the AMS.

13. On December 31, 2003, the entire editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms resigned in order to protest the high price charged by the publisher (Elsevier). On January 21, 2004, the same board then launched a new journal, Transactions on Algorithms, published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
* [old journal] Journal of Algorithms (Elsevier)
* [new journal] Transactions on Algorithms [no web site yet] (ACM)
* Letter from Donald E. Knuth to fellow members of the Journal Algorithms editorial board outlining the problem, describing the open-access solution, and asking them to choose among four options.
* Public statement by the former Journal of Algorithms editors explaining their resignation. Forthcoming in the March 2004 issue of SIGACT News.
* Hal Gabow has the dates and some other details on his home page.
* George Porter discusses some of the aftermath in a May 14, 2004 STLQ blog posting.

14. On January 27, 2004, Editor in Chief Dominique Boullier and the entire editorial board of Les cahiers du numérique resigned from the journal and released an open letter explaining why. They point to CduN's high price and limited online access policy which "contradict our objectives as researchers".
* [old journal] Les cahiers du numérique
* The editors' open letter announcing and explaining their resignation, January 27, 2004.