This week is international Open Access Week, which aims to raise the awareness of open access publishing within the scientific and academic community, and provides an opportunity to hear about its potential benefits and the latest policies and opinions. Institutions and universities from all over the world are involved and there’s an extensive calendar of events that you can have a look at to see … Continue reading Open Access week 2013
In case you haven’t seen this over the past few days, the Journal of Applied Ecology wants a new Senior Editor. The job will be to work with the other Editors “to determine journal strategy and to increase the reputation and quality of the Journal, in addition to making decisions on around 1000 manuscripts submitted each year”. If it’s anything like MEE, it is a … Continue reading Join one of our sister journals
We’d like to welcome the following new Associate Editors to the team: Diana Fisher from the University of Queensland, Australia, Holger Schielzeth from Bielefeld University, Germany, and Steve Kembell from the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. Click on their photos below to read about their research interests: Continue reading New Associate Editors
In this video, David Warton interviews Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie of the University of Wollongong. Noel is a big name in spatial statistics, an advocate of hierarchical modeling in ecology, and the author of a key reference text in spatial statistics, and more recently “Statistics for Spatio-temporal data” with Chris Wikle; David and Noel discuss all of these topics in this interview. Continue reading An interview with Noel Cressie
Issue 4.10 is now online! This month’s issue includes articles on animal movement, stable isotopes, biodiversity, remote sensing and tagging, along with 2 freely available applications: pavo and ITSx. About the cover: The conspicuous plumage of male crimson-hooded manakins (Pipra aureola) exemplifies some of the complex visual signals used by animals for mating and competition. Quantitative measurement of animal color through spectrophotometry has become increasingly … Continue reading Issue 4.10
Here’s a really useful resource from the British Ecological Society, that provides an introduction to peer review in ecology and evolution, information on best practice, ethics and FAQs: Continue reading A guide to peer review
We have a few more new Associate Editors to welcome to the Methods team, to help with our increasing number of submissions: Doug Yu from the University of East Anglia, and the Kunming Institute of Zoology in China; Ryan Chisholm from the National University of Singapore; and Patricia Backwell from the Australian National University. Continue reading New Associate Editors
Authors, here are some useful tips from our publisher, Wiley, to help you increase the visibility of your article online: Continue reading Tips to increase the visibility of your article online
We’d like to welcome Sean McMahon from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Tom Gilbert from the Natural History Museum of Denmark to the Methods Associate Editor Board. Click on their photos to read about their research interests. Continue reading New Associate Editors
Those of you who have looked carefully at the MEE submission system will know that, like a lot of other journals, we use the ScholarOne software to organise our review process. ScholarOne (who are owned by Thomson-Reuters: suppliers of Impact Factors to the gentry since 1975) have decided to run a Journal Triathlon this autumn. So, they are asking for nominations for journals in three categories:
You can read about the competition on the competition’s webpage, and also on their blog. You can also nominate a journal on the webpage, or vote for us as the greatest journal in the world.
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