The rebellions continue!
The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is diamond open access - FREE to publish in and FREE to read - and peer-reviewed.
And they did this with the help of Open Library for Humanities - an organization that coordinates 35 journals like this, and develops software to make it easy for you to set up your own.
The executive director, Caroline Edwards, says:
“It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At Open Library for Humanities we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature."
Another day, another journal editorial board mass resignation: this time from Springer's _Natural Language Semantics_, over publisher demands to increase article publication charge revenue by increasing their number of acceptances: https://www.openlibhums.org/news/943/, via https://retractionwatch.com/2026/06/05/natural-language-semantics-journal-editors-resign-launch-new-journal/
Instead the same editors are launching a new diamond open-access journal, _Semantics of Natural Languages_, through the Open Library of Humanities.