[HPSG-L] Syntax now free (of Wiley)

[Stefan Müller]

Dear colleagues,

You probably already heard about the new journal /Syntactic Theory & 
Research (STAR):/

https://www.openlibhums.org/news/693/

The journal went the Glossa-way. The editors left Wiley and took most of 
the board with them.

Some of you may remember my mail to the lists back then, when I 
announced that I would never hire somebody who published in the then 
zombie journal Lingua. I consider this strike breaking. People who do 
this harm their colleagues and their field, the budgets of their 
universities. Lingua is run by Elsevier, Syntax is run by Wiley. The 
Wiley case is even clearer. The CEOs of Wiley earn several million 
Dollars every year.

https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/~stefan/PS/Salary-Wiley-COEs-2019.png

This is the database wehre you can check the current figures:

https://www.salary.com/personal/executive-salaries/

This is not the profit of the publisher. The salaries of the CEOs are 
costs of the publisher. In addition Wiley has a profit margin of  40%. 
They are just stealing our research money, without giving something 
back. This was also the reason why the Syntax team finally quit. Wiley 
cut the support for copy editing and type setting. But linguistics needs 
special support here.

What shall I say: I never hired somebody who worked for Lingua. I 
convinced one person to step down from their newly formed board.

I guess I did not hire anybody since nobody applied.

So, for future I suggest that you neither work for Elsevier nor for 
Wiley and submit your papers to scholarly-owned journals like Glossa, 
Journal of Language Modelling, and STAR, journals of societies like 
Journal of Linguistics, Language, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 
(accepts English, is OA) ...

depending on the topic of your paper.

Best wishes

     Stefan