Panama, with its high diversity of snakes and high number of venomous
snakebites each year (thus resulting in many intentional snake killings as
well) still lacks a comprehensive field guide for residents, tourists, and
researchers.Team Snake Panama is working to change that.Please check out our
Hi David Inouye,
Several times in recent years there have been lengthy threads on Ecolog
discussing the fact that many scientific publications are prohibitively
expensive for scholars working in poor countries or who are affiliated with
institutions with very limited resources. This seems to h
It is interesting that we tend to look at how things were and reminisce
about how good it was then, yet I wonder if we were thinking similarly at
that time? The same things have been said regarding formula funding and
IDC rates and while comparison with the past is good, there needs to be a
balance
In business, since the Industrial Revolution, there has been a saying that
you can have two out of three: Fast, Cheap, or Good. American society has
gone with fast and cheap, and science publishing has been dragged into the
same choice of values. I doubt this is good for science or society in the
l
Hi, Malcolm,
I read your entire post, and found it quite moving. I don't know how to
estimate or balance the human cost involved, but I'd hold it up as better
way to achieve scientific excellence and integrity than the slick
procedures of for-profit scientific publishing.
Martin
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Herpetological Conservation and Biology is still published by researchers
without a publishing house.
There is a very good reason you don't see this much anymore, and it is not
cost.
.
If the journal is run as an online outfit, keeping its presence on the web
can move forward for as little as $5 a
I don't know, I enjoy doing peer reviews. But, I don't treat peer review
like editing a journal. If the paper is ripe with bad writing, I might
correct a paragraph and tell them to do the whole paper. Mostly, I dwell
on did they miss citations, cover the literature, approach the problem
properly
and in Ecological Applications, the January issue.
Dave Schimel
On Mar 28, 2015, at 10:05 AM, David Inouye 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 p
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
I'm till wondering about the fact that one financial interest controls (in
some ways at least) 277 journals. Does each of those journals have
independent editors? Is some bureaucrat assigning "peer" reviewers to
journals whose subject matter is utterly unknown to him/her? Is it handled
the way D
Dear all,
Please note that the deadline for abstraction submissions for the Student
Conference on Conservation Science-Bengaluru 2015 has been extended to
23:59 (Indian Standard Time) on *April 10th*.
The conference aims to attract young researchers and students all over the
world (and especially
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