The editors and staff at an Elsevier journal on linguistics resigned en masse to protest the high cost of the journal. They are going to start a new open access on-line journal. They are all professors being paid by universities, and the journal only pays ~$5000 a year, so they can afford to quit.
This is the beginning of the end for overpriced academic journals. See: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2015/11/lingua_editors_and_editorial_board_quit_the_journal_citing_lack_of_access.html - Jed
