Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another

• Autores: Peterson, A. Townsend; Anderson, Robert P.; Beger, Maria; Bolliger, Janine; Brotons, Lluís; Burridge, Christopher P.; Cobos, Marlon E.; Cuervo Robayo, Angela P.; Di Minin, Enrico; Diez, Jeffrey; Elith, Jane; Embling, Clare B.; Escobar, Luis E.; Essl, Franz; Feeley, Kenneth J.; Hawkes, Lucy; Jiménez García, Daniel; Jimenez, Laura; Green, David M.; Knop, Eva; Kühn, Ingolf; Lahoz-Monfort, José J.; Lira Noriega, Andres; Lobo, Jorge M.; Loyola, Rafael; Mac Nally, Ralph; Machado-Stredel, Fernando; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique; McCarthy, Michael; Merow, Cory; Nori, Javier; Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Petr Pyšek; Rejmánek, Marcel; Ricciardi, Anthony; Robertson, Mark; Rojas Soto, Octavio; Romero Alvarez, Daniel; Roura Pascual, Núria; Santini, Luca; Schoeman, David S.; Schröder, Boris; Soberon, Jorge; Strubbe, Diederik; Thuiller, Wilfried; Traveset, Anna; Treml, Eric A.; Václavík, Tomá; Varela, Sara; Watson, James E. M.; Wiersma, Yolanda; Wintle, Brendan; Yanez Arenas, Carlos; Zurell, Damaris
• Año de publicación: 2019
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Open Access; Comercialization; Science
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

For much of the twentieth century, many or most scholarly journals in biodiversity, ecology, biogeography and conservation were owned and published by scientific societies and made available tothe broader scientific community at relatively low cost. However, the past several decades have seen a dominant process of commercialization of the publication process in this field, either by commercial publishing firms taking over publication of journals owned by a society (e.g., Evolution), or by commercial publishers starting new journals to fill "niches" that were until then empty in the scholarly publishing ecosystem. Diversity and Distributions is an example of this latter category of journals, having been created by Wiley Publishers in 1993 (as Biodiversity Letters). Being a journal owned by a commercial publisher, it has always been accessed by readers via subscription, but the publication process has been free to potentialauthors whose work has passed peer review. A recent announcement from Wiley Publishers on the Diversity and Distributions website, however, was as follows:We are pleased to announce that Diversity and Distributions will join the Wiley Open Access portfolio as of 1st January 2019, when all articles (includingthe entire back catalogue) will become free to read, download and share for all. This exciting development will place the journal at the forefront of open science in the community.This change would appear to be positive, as it would remove the for‐pay subscription barrier to reader access to the journal, and thus would appear to constitute an intriguing step in a series of advances in opening access to the scientific literature, in line with recent proposals as those of cOAlition S (https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/). However, the good news on the webpage is followed by a more ominous, "... all submissions received after 8th October 2018 will be subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC)." We have come to understand that these APCs will be US$2,200 per paper published, which is very expensive compared with the bulk of open access journals accessibleto ecology and conservation science
Fil: Peterson, A. Townsend. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos
Fil: Anderson, Robert P.. City University of New York. The City College of New York; Estados Unidos
Fil: Beger, Maria. University of Leeds; Reino Unido
Fil: Bolliger, Janine. Swiss Federal Research Institute; Suiza
Fil: Brotons, Lluís. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Centre de Recerca Ecológica I Aplicacions Forestals; España
Fil: Burridge, Christopher P.. University of Tasmania; Australia
Fil: Cobos, Marlon E.. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos
Fil: Cuervo Robayo, Angela P.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México
Fil: Di Minin, Enrico. Helsingin Yliopisto; Finlandia. University Of Kwazulu-natal; Sudáfrica
Fil: Diez, Jeffrey. University of California; Estados Unidos
Fil: Elith, Jane. University of Melbourne; Australia
Fil: Embling, Clare B.. University Of Plymouth; Reino Unido
Fil: Escobar, Luis E.. Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Essl, Franz. Universidad de Viena; Austria
Fil: Feeley, Kenneth J.. University of Miami; Estados Unidos
Fil: Hawkes, Lucy. University of Exeter; Reino Unido
Fil: Jiménez García, Daniel. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla; México
Fil: Jimenez, Laura. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos
Fil: Green, David M.. McGill University; Canadá
Fil: Knop, Eva. University of Bern; Suiza
Fil: Kühn, Ingolf. Helmholtz Zentrum Für Umweltforschung; Alemania
Fil: Lahoz-Monfort, José J.. University of Melbourne; Australia
Fil: Lira Noriega, Andres. Instituto de Ecología; México
Fil: Lobo, Jorge M.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; España
Fil: Loyola, Rafael. Universidade Federal de Goiás; Brasil
Fil: Mac Nally, Ralph. University Of Canberra; Australia
Fil: Machado-Stredel, Fernando. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos
Fil: Martínez-Meyer, Enrique. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México
Fil: McCarthy, Michael. University of Melbourne; Australia
Fil: Merow, Cory. University of Yale; Estados Unidos
Fil: Nori, Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal; Argentina
Fil: Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos
Fil: Osorio-Olvera, Luis. Centro del Cambio Global y la Sustentabilidad En El Sureste; México
Fil: Petr Pyšek. Institute Of Botany Of The Academy Of Sciences Of The Czech Republic; Alemania. Charles University; Alemania
Fil: Rejmánek, Marcel. University of California at Davis; Estados Unidos
Fil: Ricciardi, Anthony. McGill University; Canadá
Fil: Robertson, Mark. Universiteit Van Pretoria; Sudáfrica
Fil: Rojas Soto, Octavio. Instituto de Ecología; México
Fil: Romero Alvarez, Daniel. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos
Fil: Roura Pascual, Núria. Universidad de Girona; España
Fil: Santini, Luca. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; Países Bajos
Fil: Schoeman, David S.. University Of The Sunshine Coast; Australia
Fil: Schröder, Boris. Technische Universität Braunschweig; Alemania
Fil: Soberon, Jorge. University of Kansas; Estados Unidos
Fil: Strubbe, Diederik. University of Ghent; Bélgica
Fil: Thuiller, Wilfried. Universite Grenoble Alpes; Francia
Fil: Traveset, Anna. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados; España
Fil: Treml, Eric A.. Deakin University; Australia
Fil: Václavík, Tomá. Univerzita Palackého V Olomouci; Alemania
Fil: Varela, Sara. Université Savoie Mont Blanc; Francia. Leca-laboratoire D’ecologie Alpes; Francia. Universite Grenoble Alpes; Francia
Fil: Watson, James E. M.. Wildlife Conservation Society; Estados Unidos. University of Queensland; Australia. The University of Queensland; Australia
Fil: Wiersma, Yolanda. Memorial University Of Newfoundland; Canadá
Fil: Wintle, Brendan. University of Queensland; Australia. University of Melbourne; Australia. The University of Queensland; Australia
Fil: Yanez Arenas, Carlos. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México
Fil: Zurell, Damaris. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Alemania