Achieving Open Access to Conservation Science

摘要: Conservation science is a crisis discipline in which the results of scientific enquiry must be made available quickly to those implementing management. We assessed extent research published since year 2000 20 conservation journals publicly available. Of 19,207 papers published, 1,667 (8.68%) are freely downloadable from an official repository. Moreover, only 938 (4.88%) meet standard definition open access material can reused providing attribution authors given. This compares poorly with comparable set evolutionary biology journals, where 31.93% and 7.49% access. Seventeen offer option, but fewer than 5% through The cost accessing full body runs into tens thousands dollars per for institutional subscribers, many practitioners cannot pay-per-view their workplace. However, important initiatives such as Research4Life making organizations developing countries. urge pay on per-article basis or choose publication taking care ensure license allows reuse any purpose Currently, it would $51 million make all by paying fees currently levied authors. Publishers might consider more effective models conservation-oriented running could broader range options nonmembers sponsorship via membership fees.