The managing editors and entire editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly, a Wiley title, have resigned, citing “unilateral decisions” by the publisher “that affected the editorial process.”
“We do not believe that Wiley is currently providing an environment that allows the editors to do their editorial work according to the standards of the academic community and free from the negative influence of commercial and profit-oriented interests,” the editors wrote in their resignation letter.
“The editors and managing editors of MLQ reported that the attitudes and procedures of Wiley have changed considerably in the last few years and that commercial and profit-oriented interests are now influencing the editorial process negatively,” the letter stated.
Тhe name of the new journal, ZML: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik, hearkens back to the original name of Mathematical Logic Quarterly at its founding in 1955. Cambridge University Library will provide indexing, digital hosting and preservation, and assign an ISSN and DOIs to ZML’s papers, according to the letter announcing the journal’s launch. Some members of the editorial board are financing the journal’s management, typesetting and submission system.
The journal will publish papers and make them available to read for free. The editors write they “believe that the scientific content of research journals must be under the sole control of the academic community and should be free from any commercial or profit-oriented influence.
