Lara Ferry, Dustin Marshall, Katie J. Field, Emma J. Sayer, Enrico Rezende, Jennifer Meyer
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在《功能生态学》创刊号上,创刊编辑彼得-卡洛(Peter Calow)和约翰-格雷斯(John Grace)说:"一份期刊的成功和特性与其说取决于它背后的学会,甚至也不取决于编辑和他们的董事会,而是取决于为它投稿的科学家。(Calow & Grace, 1987)。多年来,许多科学家确实选择了《功能生态学》作为他们发表精彩工作的地方,这是我们的幸运。随着我们成为完全开放的期刊,我们将继续支持为期刊投稿的科学家,包括读者、审稿人和作者。十多年来,本刊发表的每篇论文都附有免费的浅显语言摘要,方便读者查找和消化有用的文章。15 年来,我们还为作者提供了在《功能生态学》上发表开放存取论文的选择,作者只需支付文章处理费,就可以将自己的研究成果免费提供给许多没有订阅该期刊的读者。近年来,采用这种选择的作者人数大幅增加,我们一半以上的论文现在都是以开放存取的方式发表的,从而受益于由此带来的更多读者。然而,有些内容仍然是付费的,读者较难获取。在向完全开放获取期刊迈进的过程中,我们确保所有研究人员都能平等地获取我们的所有内容,同时我们也在采取措施,确保所有作者都能在期刊上发表文章。虽然我们的大多数作者都有开放存取的资金(由其所在部门或机构提供,作为其资助资金的一部分,或通过越来越多的转型交易),但我们也将通过Research4Life和英国生态学会的单独豁免政策为作者提供豁免。BES 的豁免政策适用于所有 BES 开放获取期刊。从我们的姐妹期刊《生态学与进化方法》(Methods in Ecology and Evolution,MEE)的数据中可以看出 BES 豁免政策的重要性,该期刊两年前成为完全开放获取期刊。MEE的豁免申请来自(并被批准)六大洲超过15个不同国家的作者,其职业阶段从学生到名誉教授不等,既有在学术界内的,也有在学术界外的。这些豁免使以前无法发表开放存取论文的作者得以发表论文,并从开放存取论文带来的更高曝光率中获益:论文被更多人阅读,被更多人引用,被更多人引用(Huang et al.对于作者,我们将继续在撰写和发表这些论文方面提供支持和指导,我们也将继续通过通俗易懂的语言摘要、博客文章、播客或社交媒体推广,帮助读者找到并获取重要内容。最后,我们与彼得-卡洛(Peter Calow)和约翰-格雷斯(John Grace)一样,认为作者是我们最大的优势。在转为开放获取并制定明确的作者支持计划后,我们希望生态学界更多的人都能享受到在《功能生态学》上发表文章的好处。我们感谢您一直以来的支持,并期待着与您一起迈出这激动人心的一步。
In the very first issue of Functional Ecology, the founding editors, Peter Calow and John Grace, said “The success and identity of a journal depends not so much on the Society behind it, nor even on the editors and their board, but on the scientists contributing to it.” (Calow & Grace, 1987). Functional Ecology has been fortunate that many scientists have indeed chosen the journal as the place to publish their exciting work over the years and as we move to become a fully open access journal, we will continue to support the scientists contributing to the journal, as readers, as reviewers and as authors.
Functional Ecology has been deeply committed to increasing the accessibility of the journal for readers and authors for many years. For over a decade, every paper published in the journal has been accompanied by a free plain language summary that makes it easier for readers to find and digest useful articles. We have provided help for authors via publishing workshops held both in person and online and have published several advice articles on effective science writing (Sayer, 2018, 2019; Sayer & Ferry, 2023).
For over 15 years, we have also offered authors the option to publish Open Access in Functional Ecology, paying an article processing charge to make their findings freely available to the many readers without a subscription to the journal.
In recent years, the number of authors taking this option has increased significantly, with more than half of our papers now being published open access and thus benefitting from the increased readership that this brings. Some content, however, still remains paywalled and less accessible to readers. In our move to becoming a fully open-access journal, we assure that all our content is equally accessible to all researchers—and we are also taking steps to ensure publishing in the journal remains accessible to all authors. While the majority of our authors have funding for open access available (provided by their department or institution, as part of their grant funding or through the increasing number of transformational deals), we will be providing author waivers through both Research4Life and the separate British Ecological Society waiver policy as well.
While Research4Life waivers are offered to authors in low-income countries, additional waivers are available for authors submitting to Functional Ecology from the rest of the world. These waivers are granted in line with the BES waiver policy, which applies to all BES open-access journals.
The importance of the BES waiver policy is evident from the data we have from our sister journal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE), which became a fully open-access journal two years ago. For MEE, waiver requests have come from (and been granted to) authors in over 15 different countries on six continents, at career stages ranging from students to emeritus professors and both within and outside of academia. Those waivers have made it possible for authors who were previously unable to publish open access to do so and to reap the benefits of the increased exposure publishing open access brings: papers that are read more, cited more and cited by a broader audience (Huang et al., 2024).
What we seek to publish remains unchanged: papers that significantly advance our mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. To authors, we will continue to provide support and guidance in writing and publishing those papers, and we will continue to help readers find and access important content via plain language summaries, blog posts, podcasts or social media promotion.
Finally, we are with Peter Calow and John Grace in believing that our authors are our biggest strength. In moving to open access with a clear plan to support authors, we hope that the benefits of publishing in Functional Ecology will be available to an even larger portion of the ecological community.
We thank you for your continued support and look forward to taking this exciting step with you.
期刊介绍:
Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Because of the multifaceted nature of this challenge, papers can be based on a wide range of approaches. Thus, manuscripts may vary from physiological, genetics, life-history, and behavioural perspectives for organismal studies to community and biogeochemical studies when the goal is to understand ecosystem and larger scale ecological phenomena. We believe that the diverse nature of our journal is a strength, not a weakness, and we are open-minded about the variety of data, research approaches and types of studies that we publish. Certain key areas will continue to be emphasized: studies that integrate genomics with ecology, studies that examine how key aspects of physiology (e.g., stress) impact the ecology of animals and plants, or vice versa, and how evolution shapes interactions among function and ecological traits. Ecology has increasingly moved towards the realization that organismal traits and activities are vital for understanding community dynamics and ecosystem processes, particularly in response to the rapid global changes occurring in earth’s environment, and Functional Ecology aims to publish such integrative papers.