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Accessing Methods in 2012

It’s been two years since the British Ecological Society and Wiley-Blackwell launched Methods in Ecology and Evolution, and the journal has got off to a fantastic start. Tremendous interest in the Society’s youngest publication, and an abundance of high-quality submissions, have led to its switch from quarterly to bi-monthly publication. Authors have proven quick to embrace the use of online technologies to improve the uptake … Continue reading Accessing Methods in 2012

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Journal updates, Virtual Issues

International Open Access Week 2011

This week marks the 5th annual International Open Access Week, and to celebrate this exciting  milestone the journals of the British Ecological Society – including Methods! – have put together a special virtual issue of open access papers in ecology. The papers are drawn from all five journals, and cover a broad range of topics: from invasives, stress and insect ecology to wider issues  in community … Continue reading International Open Access Week 2011

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Top papers for August

How safe is mist netting? Evaluating the risk of injury and mortality to birds remains our most highly accessed article for the second month in a row – just managing to stay ahead of RNCEP: global weather and climate data at your fingertips, which has been receiving fantastic interest since we published it in July of this year. This open source package, written in R, is intended to help … Continue reading Top papers for August

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Journal updates

Top papers for June

Open access research papers, freely available applications, and papers supported by podcasts continued to be our most popular publications for June. Open papers How safe is mist netting? Evaluating the risk of injury and mortality to birds, by Spotswood et al., and A simple method for in situ-labelling with 15N and 13C of grassland plant species by foliar brushing, by Putz et al., both received a lot of downloads, with How … Continue reading Top papers for June

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Journal updates

Accessing Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution stopped being available to everyone at the start of this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still access it for free! For starters, you can encourage your institutional librarian to sign up for free access to volumes 1 and 2, in perpetuity, by directing them to this opt-in form.  You can also get free access to Methods as a … Continue reading Accessing Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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