Natural History Wanderings

An important part of making good conservation decisions is having access to accurate research. Conservation Magazine recently reported that only 4.88 percent of papers in journals important to conservation research that meet the criteria for “open access,”. Open access which means the content can be reused if attribution is given. They report that it would cost $51,000,000 for conservationists to have full access to all the science and research they need to do thorough work. They found

 Individual papers cost more than $30, and subscriptions to each of the journals in the study would cost more than $26,000 per year for small institutions.

Read more about this on this problem at  Most conservation science not available to conservationists – Conservation.