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

2009-05-11 Thread Hamazaki, Hamachan (DFG)
hamaz...@alaska.gov -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of malcolm McCallum Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 8:00 AM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism

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

2009-05-10 Thread Jarrett Byrnes
I'd also like to point out that there are a wide number of open access journals in which ecologists can publish. See here for a comprehensive listing: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=ecology with titles such as Research Letters in Ecology - http://www.hindawi.com/jo

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2009-05-10 Thread malcolm McCallum
1) I am a founding editor of Herpetological Conservation and Biology ( http://www.herpconbio.org).It charges nothing for anything. Our turn-around tends to be competitive with any other journal and if you look at the journal you will see that it is done pretty professionally and has a very good ad

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2009-05-10 Thread William Silvert
phone numbers). At least with requests for PDFs you get a complete return address! Bill Silvert Portugal - Original Message - From: "Ruhland, Christopher T" To: Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism Approval r

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2009-05-10 Thread Ruhland, Christopher T
All this talk of PDF files make me nostalgic for reprint request cards. I still have a stack of those somewhere.. C- Christopher T. Ruhland, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biological Sciences TS 242 Trafton Sciences Center Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 phone: 507 389-13

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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) outlin

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2009-05-10 Thread Wayne Tyson
p" journal? Are there any open-access journals that are not condemned by the "elders?" People on the cutting edge are often burned at the stake . . . WT - Original Message - From: "Luke K. Butler" To: Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [ECOL

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

2009-05-10 Thread William Silvert
at helped! Bill Silvert - Original Message - From: "Wayne Tyson" To: Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism Approval required Re: [ECOLOG-L] Teaching Biostatistics !!! (Suggested replacement post) Ecolog: "

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2009-05-09 Thread Wayne Tyson
s and acquisitions among publishers and rises in serial prices. - Original Message - From: "Jane Shevtsov" To: "Wayne Tyson" Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism Approval required Re: [ECOLOG-L] Teac

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2009-05-09 Thread Luke K. Butler
"Why not, at the individual level, that academics simply boycott journals which charge for access and publish in open access journals?" I would love to have this question answered by established elders in their fields. Open-access journals, being mostly new and unfamiliar, are no place for

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2009-05-09 Thread Jane Shevtsov
It is sometimes not practical to publish in open access journals, because of cost or other reasons. (I wish PLoS would say exactly under what circumstances they waive publication charges.) But most of us have web pages. Once you have a PDF of your article, put it on your web page! Thanks to Google,

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

2009-05-09 Thread Wayne Tyson
(Suggested replacement post) Ecolog: "In my university I do not have access to literature sources like Biological Abstracts for example to reach the authors and articles . . ." This is an excellent example, unfortunately, of how pricing intellectual resources out of range for "outsiders"