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
> 
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> 
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