I agree with the points made by Geoff. Systematics papers have a longer 'shelf life' than other science papers, so having unrestricted access to articles well into the future is important.
Most open access journals use an author-pays model, with costs ranging from about USD 500-3000 per article according to my quick web scan; so MBR is near the top of that price range.
Now for the plug ;) Zookeys is at the lower end of this price range (and discounts and waivers may also apply) ... and it registers your article at ZooBank for free !
Cheers,
Chris
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From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu [mailto:annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Read
Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2017 7:32 PM
To: annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu
Subject: Re: [Annelida] Taxonomic papers at Marine Biology Research
I strongly advocate making all taxonomy open access.
Just noting that Marine Biology Research is closed access (subscription only). If you publish taxonomy in such a journal, you may think people only have to email you to get a copy, inconvenient though that maybe for them and for you. It assumes this journal publishes your email address alongside the abstract (for example Zootaxa does not - it is impossible to email a Zootaxa author of a closed-access article through the Zootaxa website). However, what happens after you drop out of science? Well, long after you are dead this commercial publisher of MBR (Taylor & Francis) will still be charging a stiff fee to let people read the research over which you have laboured (and they have copyrighted for themselves while contributing very little to the end result). This will go on for another hundred years or so, and will undoubtedly restrict the number of people who can use your work, and disadvantage the open dissemination of knowledge. Is that what you want?
You can have open access at MBR, but it costs GBP £1,788 / Euro €2,150 / USD $2,950 per article. That is a sizeable sum. Probably a good idea to shop around for a cheaper open-access option.
Another factor when choosing a journal is whether the journal registers your article at ZooBank. If they don't then your work is not Code published until the print edition - in the case of some journals this can be nine months or more after your work appears online. However, I am pleased to see that MBR has registered the example article listed below at ZooBank, and thus presumably registers all taxonomy. That's good.
Cheers,
Geoff
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From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu <annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu> on behalf of Sergio Taboada <sergiotab from gmail.com>
Sent: 15 February 2017 20:56
To: annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu
Subject: [Annelida] Taxonomic papers at Marine Biology Research
Dear all,
I am forwarding you an email I received from the Porifera list that might be of your interest, specially if you are planning on submitting taxonomic studies related to
*alpha-taxonomic accounts (including taxonomic reviews for a distinct region or group of species) as well as integrative taxonomic revisions. *Please see below for further details.
All the best,
Sergi.
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Sergi Taboada
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London
Life Sciences Dept,
DC1, 6th floor
Office 610B
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7492 6059
Dear spongers,
I would like to draw your attention to the *new Marine Biology Research
(MBRJ) publication category called 'Taxonomic revision'*. MBRJ will now support comprehensive alpha-taxonomic accounts (including taxonomic reviews for a distinct region or group of species) as well as integrative taxonomic revisions. MBRJ will even remunerate papers published under this category with an allowance for excessive overall size and colour pages printed free of charge.
If you are interested, please read the recent editorial (
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17451000.2016.1228979) which provides all needed instructions including links to published examples of taxonomic papers in the new and much improved scientific- and technical-quality style of MBRJ. All style examples are open access.
The first paper in the “Taxonomic Revision” category has been published ( http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17451000.2016.1241411, Tu T-H, Dai C-F, Jeng M-S. 2016. Taxonomic revision of Coralliidae with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Hawaii Archipelago).
Best regards,
Paco------------------------------------------------------------
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