You can. Duplicate our effort http:/www.herpconbio.org but it means someone has to do the work that the publishers do, we are working to shift most of the formatting to the authors, but this requires VERY GOOD directions!
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Sarah Frias-Torres <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding the open access issue recently covered in Ecolog-L, let's go back > to square one. > Consider a tenure-track field-oriented research scientist in the USA. > How many times does he/she pay for the paper published in a peer-review > journal? > Let's follow the basic steps.Assuming the federal research grant/s were > written, submitted, and against all odds (considering the current funding > situation) funded. Out of the research grant monies, you have to: > 1) pay your own salary, so you can do the research and submit the > publications.2) pay salary/ies to postdocs/grad students to do fieldwork, and > part of research and publications3) pay fieldwork expenses (including > instruments, equipment, etc)4) pay overhead to university, so among other > things, university can afford institutional subscription to scientific > journals and provide journal access to faculty and students5) pay submission > costs to journals if printing in color, for open access availability (for > those journals that are not open access) or pay for submission in open access > journal that requires fee.6) in many cases, pay additional fee so you can > have your own pdf of your own publication > Of course, this is just an example of many possible alternatives. However, > there is an interesting trend. From conceptual research idea to final > publication in peer-review journal, tax dollars pay the process many times > over...Perhaps we should re-think the whole process.Am I the only one who > thinks we can do better than this? > Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D. Marine Conservation Biologist > -- Malcolm L. McCallum Associate Professor of Biology Texas A&M University-Texarkana Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology http://www.herpconbio.org http://www.twitter.com/herpconbio Fall Teaching Schedule & Office Hours: Landscape Ecology: T,R 10-11:40 pm Environmental Physiology: MW 1-2:40 pm Seminar: T 2:30-3:30pm Genetics: M 6-10pm Office Hours: M 3-6, T: 12-2, W: 3-4 1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
