Abstract
ABSTRACTA 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. © 2017 The Wildlife Society.
Highlights
A commentary published recently in Journal of Wildlife Management argued that open access publication has strong negative implications for the future of science
We are concerned with his mischaracterization of open access (OA): besides being misleading, it denies The Wildlife Society (TWS) members a clear understanding of the benefits of OA to the wildlife management community
Society journals themselves are frequently published by commercial presses (e.g., Journal of Wildlife Management (JWM) is published by Wiley-Blackwell Co.), whereas others are published independently or via lower-cost consortia such as BioOne, and some are OA journals
Summary
A commentary published recently in Journal of Wildlife Management argued that open access publication has strong negative implications for the future of science. The Journal of Wildlife Management (JWM) published a commentary (Romesburg 2016) entitled “How Publishing in Open Access Journals Threatens Science and What We Can Do
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