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One example worth noting is the online journal San Francisco Estuary and
Watershed Science (from their description at
http://www.estuaryscience.org): 

San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science is an open access,
peer-reviewed journal that publishes research about the science and
resource management of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin
River Delta, and the upstream watersheds. The journal is published
jointly by the CALFED Science Program, the California Digital Library
eScholarship Repository, and the University of California-Davis John
Muir Institute of the Environment.

There are five main objectives for San Francisco Estuary and Watershed
Science:

   1. To provide timely, Internet-based communication of peer-reviewed
results of basic and applied research, as well as reviews and syntheses
of information, principles, conclusions, and interpretations on key
regional issues that specifically add to our understanding of the
Bay-Delta estuary, its watershed and adjacent coastal ocean, and the
management of their resources.

   2. To provide the opportunity to publish longer reports, monographs,
or special issues of multiple, related chapters covering complex
subjects of both scientific and regional interest, and to provide
access, as appropriate, to an archive of the underlying data.

   3. To encourage publication of peer-reviewed reports on the findings
and conclusions of studies conducted by management or regulatory
agencies, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and other entities
that otherwise might have very limited distribution.

   4. To provide a forum for commentary, discussion, and debate on the
scientific and management questions and issues pertaining to the science
of the Bay-Delta estuary, its watershed and adjacent coastal ocean, and
management of their resources.

   5. To ensure that the content of San Francisco Estuary and Watershed
Science is widely discoverable, searchable, and accessible through
digital libraries, public Internet services, and other emerging
information technologies.

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