and in Ecological Applications, the January issue. Dave Schimel
On Mar 28, 2015, at 10:05 AM, David Inouye <[email protected]> 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 > > Dr. David W. Inouye, Professor Emeritus > Department of Biology > University of Maryland > College Park, MD 20742-4415 > > 2014-15: President, Ecological Society of America > > Principal Investigator > Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory > PO Box 519 > Crested Butte, CO 81224 > > [email protected] > 301-405-6946
