[Taxacom] Open Access taxonomy

[Roderic Page]

Dear All,

At the risk of channelling Donat Agosti, I find it somewhat depressing that only two of the International Institute for Species Exploration's Top 10 new species for 2010 (http://species.asu.edu/Top10 ) were published as Open Access articles (see http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/05/top-ten-new-species-described-in-2010.html or http://tinyurl.com/3j69cw5 ).

Choice of where to publish is obviously influenced by several, sometimes conflicting criteria, but it's a pity that so much of taxonomy's output lies behind paywalls.

Regards

Rod

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Roderic Page
Professor of Taxonomy
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
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University of Glasgow
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