The article reports that academic editors at journal NeuroImage and its affiliated journal have resigned over the owner, Elsevier fee charged to make papers open access and the departing editors asked Elsevier to reduce NeuroImage fee to provide papers free to read upon publication, but it refused.
The article discusses a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to furnish their curriculum vitae. The site, operated from Russia, openly offers to sell authorship slots on soon-to-be-published scientific papers for fees ranging from several hundred dollars to nearly $5000. The site, www.123mi.ru, has posted more than 1000 advertisements posted and 419 that seemed to match manuscripts that later appeared in different journals.