This happened again, more recently, in the machine learning community. Here is the resignation letter from the editorial board of the _Machine Learning_ journal

This happened again, more recently, in the machine learning community. Here is the resignation letter from the editorial board of the _Machine Learning_ journal, as they left to start an open journal: http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html The new "Journal of Machine Learning Research": http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/ http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/