Reports: Academic Publishers Face Class Action Over ‘Peer Review’ Pay, Other Restrictions

Ed. Note: We will be updating this post with additional coverage, statements, and filings as they become available. Please check back.From Reuters:University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law by barring simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and denying pay for “peer review” services.
Professor Lucina Uddin [UCLA] filed the lawsuit in Brookly