Splitting the Difference - Does an Editorial Mutiny at a Journal Do Much Long-term Damage?: The Scholarly Kitchen
Splitting the Difference - Does an Editorial Mutiny at a Journal Do Much Long-term Damage?
April 2013
Todd Carpenter discusses the joint resignation of the editors and editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration (JLA) over the copyright policies of publisher, Taylor and Francis. He reviews past instances of other journal editors/boards resigning and starting a competing journal and compares the journal impact factors of the competing journals to assess what impact, if any, this had.