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Thank you for the invitation to review, but even more thank you for your work as an editor.  I know that your job is not easy.  I also know that you depend on reviewers for the process of peer review. However, must decline your invitation.  

I object to providing my free labor to publishing houses that rely on the volunteer efforts of authors, reviewers, and editors, claim copyright over our work, restrict the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and then charge our own libraries for access to it. It is easier to feel good about supporting a journal that serves scientific values of openness in the dissemination of knowledge, rather than one that is greedily exploiting its copyright. Although I appreciate the valuable role that journal publishers once played, the Internet age has largely eliminated the value of distributing paper journals (Nosek & Bar-Anan, 2012). I wish I could publish all my work in open-access venues.  Yet, perhaps like you, I find myself constrained by the current system while at the same time envisioning a better future (Moore & Tenney, 2012). One way to help facilitate change is if individual editors or whole editorial teams move to open-access versions of old-fashioned paper journals.  In case you or your editorial team has ever considered such a move, allow me to offer my enthusiastic support. Fortunately, there are online journal platforms that stand ready to accept editorial teams ready to throw off the yoke of exploitation by publishers.