The Landscape of Publishing in Neuroscience: Honouring Our Scientific Heritage and Shaping the Future of Research

The landscape of scientific publishing has changed considerably in the few short decades since the three of us first engaged in neuroscience. Back then, articles for reference had to be sourced at the actual library (you know, the building with the books). Some of you may remember going to the library to manually check the weekly “Current Contents”, which reported title pages from several hundred journals. Our very first papers were carefully printed in triplicate on heavy paper and posted off for review. And woe betide if there was a smudge on your photomicrograph - you’d have to wait 12 days for a new version to be captured and sent away to the developer to be printed.