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Another one bites the dust! The editorial board of the journal Mathematical Logic Quarterly have resigned en masse, complaining about the publisher, Wiley:

"The managing editors and editors of MLQ believe that the academic editorial process guaranteeing scientific quality control should be entirely in the hands of an editorial team consisting of members of the academic research community that are entirely free from pressure or influence of commercial and profit-oriented interests."

They've started a new journal of mathematical logic that's "diamond open access". This means simply that it's free to publish in and free to read.

Because they're German, they decided to call this new journal Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. But they'll forgive you if you call it ZML:

https://blog.tib.eu/2025/04/07/mlq-walk-out/

This move is part of a trend. The Open Access Tracking Project now lists more than 200 articles on such "declarations of independence":

https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/3/tag/oa.declarations_of_independence

If you're on an editorial board, you should want to convert your journal to diamond open access. And there are resources to help you do it:

https://www.openaccess.nl/en/diamond-open-access/resources
https://toolsuite.diamas.org/