[ECOLOG-L] New online community for open peer-review in science

2013-07-26 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
___ Lonnie Aarssen Department of Biology Queen's University Kingston, ON Canada L7L 3N6

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Other list serves like Ecolog

2013-05-01 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
not discussions. On Apr 30, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Mitch Cruzan cru...@pdx.edu wrote: You left off the Evolution Directory: Evoldir http://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html On 4/30/2013 5:38 PM, Lonnie Aarssen wrote: Here is what I learned from member replies (thanks!), and from some other digging

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Other list serves like Ecolog

2013-04-30 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Complex Email:  aarss...@queensu.ca Web:    http://post.queensu.ca/~aarssenl/ Tel:613-533-6133 Fax:    613-533-6617 -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ECOLOG- l...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Lonnie Aarssen Sent: April-19-13 1:44

[ECOLOG-L] Other list serves like Ecolog

2013-04-19 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Dear Ecolog, Does anyone know about other open list serves like Ecolog (i.e. that do not require a society membership) connected with any other science disciplines? Based on responses, I would be happy to compile and report a list of these. Cheers, Lonnie

Re: [ECOLOG-L] A response to E.O. Wilson's opinion about math

2013-04-11 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
science because they might not have the sharpest mathematical inclination. They can easily find plenty of others to work with that do, while at the same time learning enough mathematics to collaborate effectively. Lonnie Aarssen Department of Biology Queen's University Kingston, ON Canada

[ECOLOG-L] NEW IDEAS

2013-01-10 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Everyone has ideas, and sometimes they have potential to make a significant impact on science. If you have a good idea, why not publish it? If you don't, someone else soon will. IDEAS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION provides a peer-reviewed, open-access venue for this. Volume 5 (2012) for IEE is

[ECOLOG-L] OPEN PEER REVIEW

2012-12-18 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Dear Ecolog, Announcing a new model for open peer review - launching soon from Queen's University: Science Open Reviewed: An online community connecting authors with reviewers for journalshttp://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/article/view/4475/4524.

[ECOLOG-L] Are peer-review filters optimal?

2012-05-05 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Dear Ecolog, Pre-publication peer review is essential for the progress of science. But how rigorous should peer-review filters be? They can range from zero, i.e. publish without peer review, to the highest level where publication is granted for 'only the best of the best', as judged by peer

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology (the journal) stalled?

2012-03-15 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
I wonder if Don Strong would explain to us why Ecology is still publishing on paper? No ecologist that I know reads paper journals anymore, and hasn't for years. And libraries everywhere are cancelling their paper subscriptions and supporting only electronic journal subscriptions. In the

[ECOLOG-L] Ideas in Ecology and Evolution - Vol. 4

2011-12-30 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Volume 4 (2011) of Ideas in Ecology and Evolution is now complete (http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE), including year-end editorials from four of our Advisory Editors. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution publishes short forum-style articles that develop new ideas or that involve original

[ECOLOG-L] Ideas from grad students and post-docs

2011-12-30 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
DO YOU HAVE A NOVEL IDEA OR OPINION? Some of the most fertile ground for the release of creativity in science can be found in the relatively young open minds of graduate students and post-docs, who are not yet biased by theory tenacity. If you are a grad student or post-doc in ecology or

[ECOLOG-L] Ideas in Ecology and Evolution - Vol. 3

2011-01-14 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Volume 3 (2010) of Ideas in Ecology and Evolution is now complete (http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE), including a year-end editorial announcing a new peer-review model that will be explored for 2011. In the Author-Directed Peer-Review (ADPR) model, authors make their own

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous?

2010-03-03 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Dear All, Complete transparency, with reviewer names disclosed, is the policy for the new open access peer-review journal - Ideas in Ecology and Evolution: http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE In fact, reviewer names are listed within published papers, and reviewers are encouraged

[ECOLOG-L] Vol 2 - Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

2010-01-11 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
Dear Ecolog subscribers, Volume 2 (2009) for Ideas in Ecology and Evolution is now complete (http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/issue/current) including a year-end editorial with reflection on our first full year of operation, the ongoing mission of the journal, and our anticipation for

[ECOLOG-L] Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

2009-11-14 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
ANNOUNCING A NEW PROMOTIONAL OFFER FROM IEE: Manuscripts can now be submitted and reviewed with no submission fee required from authors. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution is a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal published at Queen's University, welcoming submissions of forum-style papers

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism Approval required Re: [ECOLOG-L] Teaching Biostatistics !!!

2009-05-10 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
A new open-access journal published at Queen's University addresses many of the concerns raised here by Wayne and others: IDEAS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE The opening editorial (http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/article/view/1949/2054)

Wanting, or not wanting, babies

2007-12-02 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
that has ever lived, including humans, whose evolution has resulted in these consequences. And, sadly, there is little reason to believe that the future evolution of humans will be any different. Lonnie Aarssen

Re: ESA’s News and Views Blog

2006-11-10 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
With the announcement of ESA’s new “News and Views Blog” (http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=13), academic ecologists will soon be asking themselves a number of important questions: How this will impact on the ideas and forum sections that have emerged in many journals in recent years? Will this ESA

Re: gender issues in ecology

2006-11-02 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
With the on-going discussion here of issues involving challenges of careers with children, childlessness, and the subugation of women, this seems like a good opportunity for me to plug a recent publication of mine that may be of interest to some - available for download at: