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
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There are a number of recent papers in the ecological literature discussing
many of the issues described here and some offering a variety of solutions.
If I didn't just post a link to one last week I'd repost, but you can
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David,
I'm glad to hear that. It seems to me that tropical countries are
much more likely to address environmental and ecological issues if the
knowledge and recommendations to do so come from their own scientists, and
favorable access policies from ESA and other organizations can only
Yes, people would continue declining to do reviews because at the end they
don't see an extra penny. Let me ask you how much the journals charge for a
paper? Lot of the journals charge a decent amount of money to the authors
for publishing but the people who perform the major role behind the
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Sorry, you're just judging me without really knowing me.
The economics are really rather different. - Prove it. Why lot of good
reviewers are NOT interested in reviewing anymore then?
Careful, conscientious reviewing takes attention span, which is in
chronically short supply and is
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The economics are really rather different.
Careful, conscientious reviewing takes attention span, which is in chronically
short supply and is differentially compensated.
Productive people continue to review for free because they also need
reviewers to get their papers published.
If you are
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Something occurred to me - maybe it's a new thought or maybe one I forgot
hearing elsewhere. If page charges are burdening some researchers, and the
lack of compensation (monetary, prestige, etc.) for peer-reviewing is
inhibiting the review process, why not link these two? Couldn't a journal
keep
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If the model of scientific publishing is the for-profit publisher hiding
publicly funded research behind a pay wall and making a profit, then I
think most would agree with Atanu: reviewers should be paid.
If the model is the older model of professional societies and individual
scientists (or
This sounds similar to Pearage of Science.
I occassionally do things for them.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Stefano Liccioli liccioli...@yahoo.it
wrote:
Good morning,
in regards to the reviewing issue and the fact that so many people
decline to do reviews these days,I was wondering how
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Dear ECOLOG,
Lauren Kuehne and I recently published an opinion article in PNAS (Lay
Summaries needed to enhance science communication;
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/12/3585) promoting the requirement and
publication of lay summaries with peer-reviewed research articles.
In the article, we
Note that there is movement afoot to increase public access to federally funded
research:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf.
Of particular interest to this thread is Section 3:
begin quote
3. Objectives for Public Access to
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I agree with Atanu.
The free riders are the publishers, journals, etc. that profit from
the current system--they charge authors to publish papers, they own
the copyrights, they usually do not allow or charge additional fees
for authors to post their work to their own website, and then they
Does anyone use Digital Commons (http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/)? I
have found numerous papers from the most common to the most obscure
journals and have not had to pay to receive them. The only requirement is
that the author has to remember to post their paper(s) there once it is
published.
Good morning,
in regards to the reviewing issue and the fact that so many people decline to
do reviews these days,I was wondering how many of the Ecologgers (at least,
those of you who are reviewers) are registered on Poblons
https://publons.com/
I was recently invited to do so and I haven't
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