Dear Ecolog, Great news. The new journal immediate science ecology that my peers and I have launched (http://www.immediatescience.org) has two new papers: a discovery paper on the habitat of the threatened California Red-legged Frog and a development paper on reintroduced prairie dog effects on arthropods and burrowing owls. Both are really useful and have strong merits. This is exactly what I was hoping a journal like this could be. A snappy, open access venue for research. We got both out very quickly for no cost to one individual and $100 to the other person.
I have been discussing the value of a journal like this with many folks. Some universities have in-house publications for honour thesis research. If yours does not, or if some of your students want to get it to a broader context, please consider using this journal. If you have a sec, pop me an email if your university has a similar journal as I would love to check them out. As a reminder, I want this to be a spot for discovery, development, and documentation that you might be hard-pressed to publish elsewhere and certainly not at this price point (free for students and postdocs and a nominal fee for others). I think of it as a hybrid of PlosOne and PlosCurrents and we want it to serve as a rapid venue for any paper with data that promotes discovery, develops a new idea but may not have extensive data, and documents a pattern that may have been published before but in a new system. cheers, chris.
