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Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
Type of review: | Not specified |
Title: | Vegetation classification goes open access |
Authors: | Jansen, Florian Biurrun, Idoia Dengler, Jürgen Willner, Wolfgang |
et. al: | No |
DOI: | 10.3897/VCS/2020/53445 10.21256/zhaw-20060 |
Published in: | Vegetation Classification and Survey |
Volume(Issue): | 1 |
Page(s): | 1 |
Pages to: | 6 |
Issue Date: | 4-May-2020 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Pensoft |
ISSN: | 2683–0671 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | Vegetation classification; Open access |
Subject (DDC): | 580: Plants (Botany) |
Abstract: | With this inaugural editorial, we introduce Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the new gold open access (OA) journal of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS). VCS is devoted to vegetation classification at any spatial and organisational scale and irrespective of the methodological approach. It welcomes equally case studies and broad-scale syntheses as well as conceptual and methodological papers. Two Permanent Collections deal with ecoinformatics (including the standardised Database Reports published in collaboration with GIVD, the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases) and phytosociological nomenclature (edited in collaboration with the respective IAVS Working Group). We discuss the advantages of OA as well as challenges and drawbacks caused by the way it is currently implemented, namely “pay for flaws” and publication impediments for scientists without access to funding. Being a society-owned journal, editorial decisions in VCS are free from economic considerations, while at the same time IAVS offers significant reductions to article processing charges (APCs) for authors with financial constraints. However, it is recognised that sustainable OA publishing will require that payment systems are changed from author-paid APCs to contracts between the science funding agencies and publishers or learned societies, to cover the production costs of journals that meet both quality and impact criteria. |
URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/20060 |
Fulltext version: | Published version |
License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International |
Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management |
Organisational Unit: | Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR) |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management |
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Jansen, F., Biurrun, I., Dengler, J., & Willner, W. (2020). Vegetation classification goes open access. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 1, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/53445
Jansen, F. et al. (2020) ‘Vegetation classification goes open access’, Vegetation Classification and Survey, 1, pp. 1–6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/53445.
F. Jansen, I. Biurrun, J. Dengler, and W. Willner, “Vegetation classification goes open access,” Vegetation Classification and Survey, vol. 1, pp. 1–6, May 2020, doi: 10.3897/VCS/2020/53445.
JANSEN, Florian, Idoia BIURRUN, Jürgen DENGLER und Wolfgang WILLNER, 2020. Vegetation classification goes open access. Vegetation Classification and Survey. 4 Mai 2020. Bd. 1, S. 1–6. DOI 10.3897/VCS/2020/53445
Jansen, Florian, Idoia Biurrun, Jürgen Dengler, and Wolfgang Willner. 2020. “Vegetation Classification Goes Open Access.” Vegetation Classification and Survey 1 (May): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/53445.
Jansen, Florian, et al. “Vegetation Classification Goes Open Access.” Vegetation Classification and Survey, vol. 1, May 2020, pp. 1–6, https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/53445.
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