Martin-
You raise very good questions. I hope the Governing Board of ESA can
respond. I too see that developing world and other scientists run into
various barriers.
Sheila Ward
On 2015-03-28 14:50, Martin Meiss wrote:
Hi David Inouye,
Several times in recent years there have been lengthy threads on
Ecolog
discussing the fact that many scientific publications are prohibitively
expensive for scholars working in poor countries or who are affiliated
with
institutions with very limited resources. This seems to have devolved
into
a situation where science exists to serve the wealthy, where tropical
countries serve as field stations for ecologists, but are excluded from
participating in research and benefiting from the research of their own
lands.
Do you know if the Governing Board took this into account when
considering a publishing partner? Who will control the pricing and
availability of the journals? Will there be a policy guaranteeing, or
at
least facilitating, access for worthy scholars, irrespective of their
financial means?
Martin
2015-03-28 12:30 GMT-04:00 David S Schimel <daveschi...@gmail.com>:
and in Ecological Applications, the January issue.
Dave Schimel
On Mar 28, 2015, at 10:05 AM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> wrote:
> The Ecological Society of America, which has self-published its journals
for about a century, is facing this kind of issue Martin raises below.
Most
of the societies that publish journals read by ecologists have already
moved to partner with some of the large publishers (Wiley, Elsevier,
Oxford
University Press, Taylor and Francis, etc.), and it is likely that the
ESA
will do the same within the next year. For more information about the
reasons behind this, see this month's editorial in Frontiers in
Ecology and
the Environment:
http://www.esajournals.org/doi/full/10.1890/1540-9295-13.2.67.
>
> David Inouye
>
>
> At 10:42 AM 3/28/2015, you wrote:
>
>> What ever happened to the scholarly journal being a pet sideline of a
>> working professor, struggling by on subscription fees and small
allotments
>> from the university's research foundation, with high-level graduate
>> students doing some of the editorial work as part of a stipend deal?
>> Perhaps not the best of all possible governance models, but it seems to
me
>> like a better recipe for scientific integrity than being a
profit-center of
>> a corporate machine.
>>
>> Your thoughts, please...
>>
>> Martin M. Meiss
>
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>
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