Great news! ESA has changed their journal policy to now accept submissions that are on arXiv or other preprint servers. The news was tweeted by Scott Collins, ESA President.
This represents a great move – both for the responsiveness of ESA and as a signal that it’s time to move forward with building a preprint culture in Ecology to make us a faster, more nimble field of discipline. See some fantastic comments along these lines from IPhilippe Desjardins-Proulx
This is by Rebecca at F1000.
http://the-scientist.com/2012/08/28/opinion-transparency-in-science-publishing/
I like their public “status” markers as a scaffold for folks to accept pre-print and open review.
Any thoughts?
There’s a great writeup at Nature entitled Geneticists eye the potential of arXiv.
With ESA coming up next week, who is going to be there? We should start buttonholing EICs and folk to ask about the possibility of our project being compatible with their journals.
This just came out as beta. It’s fully open-source CMS for publishing.
It connects to Disqus for discussion threads and does about 80% of what we were talking about in the room.
I’m asking them about connecting up DOIs.
Anyhow…Something to consider for the future.
Over at his blog, Ethan White has a good recap of the whole ESA not accepting manuscripts that are on arXiv or other preprint servers. Worth checking out for the full story. ESA has now changed their policy to state:
“Likewise, if a manuscript is posted in a citable public archive outside the author’s home institution, then we consider the paper to be self-published and ineligible for submission to ESA journals.”
UPDATE in 8/2012 – From talking to several members of the ESA publications committee, it looks like this will change. A formal vote is needed, and will happen soon – so stay tuned!