This is a very important decision: one of the well-known flaws of #bibliometric evaluation is its dependance on proprietary databases - with a conflict of interests, in the case of #Scopus, belonging to #Elsevier. And science, to be open, needs to do away with them.
Awesome sketch on the #ImagingNeuroscience editor rebellion. I seriously hope more editors will have the courage and follow suit. (Looking at you Nature journals).
"The plain fact is that we don’t need Elsevier – it is a parasitic company that takes the products of science for nothing and then charges the public, and scientists, to buy back access to them."
To a large extent, this 'success' was made possible by all the scholarly organizations that have helped funnel tax funds to the shareholders of the monopolist!
