How open access is crucial to the future of science
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Issue Date
2017-01-19Author
Bolick, Josh
Emmett, Ada
Greenberg, Marc L.
Rosenblum, Brian
Peterson, A. Townsend
Publisher
Wiley
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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© 2017 The Wildlife Society
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A commentary published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management argued that open access publication has strong negative implications for the future of science. Unfortunately, that commentary was founded in serious and deep misconceptions about the distinctions between open access, commercial, and society publications, and the rigor of peer review in open access journals. To the contrary, open access responds more appropriately than traditional closed publishing venues to the needs and participation of an increasingly global scholarly research community, and peer review by a broader community may in many cases be more rigorous, responding to the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of modern research. We respectfully suggest that The Wildlife Society consider a transition from closed access to open access for The Journal of Wildlife Management, as a means of optimizing and maximizing its role in communications in the field.
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Bolick, J., Emmett, A., Greenberg, M. L., Rosenblum, B. and Peterson, A. T. (2017), How open access is crucial to the future of science. Jour. Wild. Mgmt., 81: 564–566. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21216
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