ORCID
- Embling, Clare: 0000-0002-8238-433X
Abstract
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 to the 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 potential authors whose work has passed peer review.
DOI
10.1111/ddi.12885
Publication Date
2019-01-01
Publication Title
Diversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography
Volume
25
Issue
1
ISSN
1366-9516
Embargo Period
2021-09-22
Organisational Unit
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
First Page
5
Last Page
8
Recommended Citation
Peterson, A. T., Anderson, R., Beger, M., Bolliger, J., Brotons, L., Burridge, C., Cobos, M., Cuervo-Robayo, A., Di, M., Diez, J., Elith, J., Embling, C., Escobar, L., Essl, F., Feeley, K., Hawkes, L., Jimenez-Garcia, D., Jimenez, L., Green, D., Knop, E., Kuehn, I., Lahoz-Monfort, J., Lira-Noriega, A., Lobo, J., Loyola, R., Mac, N., Machado-Stredel, F., Martinez-Meyer, E., McCarthy, M., Merow, C., Nori, J., Nunez-Penichet, C., Osorio-Olvera, L., Pysek, P., Rejmanek, M., Ricciardi, A., Robertson, M., Rojas, S., Romero-Alvarez, D., Roura-Pascual, N., & Santini, L. (2019) 'Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another', Diversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography, 25(1), pp. 5-8. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12885
