Open Access Publishing Accelerates the Pace of Conservation Biology | SpotOn

ColumbiaSCP's bookmarks 2012-10-16

Summary:

"I believe the rise in open access publishing has forced us in the academic community to ask ourselves very hard questions about the nature of how information is produced and consumed.  I think that these questions are fundamentally important, regardless of how they are ultimately resolved. This critical look at publishing will generate debates among several players: scientists, publishing companies and various information consumers. I will leave those larger debates to my fellow blog writers, I instead want to use this space to write about a very specific aspect of open access publishing – broadly about how open access publishing can help combat neocolonial distributions in information production and more specifically, how open access can help conservation in developing countries..."

Link:

http://www.nature.com/spoton/2012/10/open-access-publishing-accelerates-the-pace-of-conservation-biology/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » ColumbiaSCP's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.south oa.biology oa.data oa.gold oa.open_science oa.biodiversity oa.bmc oa.repositories.data oa.environment oa.dryad oa.conservation oa.journals oa.repositories

Authors:

Joshua Drew

Date tagged:

10/16/2012, 22:22

Date published:

10/16/2012, 09:42