Scientists establish their credentials and reputations by publishing in peer-reviewed articles. Participating in the act ...

Bill Michener is a longtime advocate of data management and archiving practices for ecologists, and I was lucky to catch him giving talk on...

We at EEB & Flow periodically post about trends and issues in scholarly publishing, and one issue that we keep coming back to is the exi...

Ecology is in a time of transition –from small-scale studies being the norm to large, global datasets employed to test broad generalities. ...

As most academics are aware, there are hundreds of predatory open access journals that try to trick authors into submitting to their journ...

Undoubtedly, readers of this blog have: a) published in an open access (OA) journal; b) debated the merits of an OA journal; and/or c) recei...

The finances and ethics of scientific publishing are complex, and there is an inherent tension between commercial publishers and academics a...

With the availability of open access (OA) journals, academics now have a choice to make when deciding where to send their manuscripts. The i...

What role will open access (OA) journals play as science publishing increasingly moves to the internet and involves a more diverse array of ...