Dear colleagues,

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

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.

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