[Taxacom] Open Access taxonomy

[Jim Croft]

Don't tell me your bloody problems...

If you want depression, only two of them were fungi, only one of them
was a unicellular procaryote, none of them were protists and none of
them were plants.  :(

jim

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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