A holy grail of environmental policy is an economy that delivers prosperity without requiring the ever-increasing consumption of raw materials. Increasing incomes while reducing environmental pressure...

POLLEN 2026 is calling for volunteers! These will be people who can support the panels as the papers are being given, guide people to their rooms and generally be supportive and helpful. OK, so the...

People are central to conservation.

For people planning on coming to POLLEN 2026 you must be keeping an eye on travel costs and accommodation. With respect to travel, please look at the slow travel guide on the POLLEN website. The best...

We are getting close to POLLEN 2026 - it starts next month! Over the next few weeks I will be posting news and updates. Please circulate as appropriate. First of all, and I will be saying this a fair...

The recent exceptional growth in the number of special issues has led to the largest delegation of editorial power in the history of scientific publishing. Has this power been used responsibly? In thi...

La deriva de las últimas décadas ha otorgado el control sobre la ciencia a los grandes grupos editoriales privados, sostiene un estudio que indica que Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley y Taylor & Franc...

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Las cuatro principales editoriales, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley y Taylor & Francis, generaron más de 7.100 millones de dólares en ingresos solo

Commercial academic publishing oligopolies are draining science. Beigel et al. (2025) call for community control, but the Lithuanian case shows this is difficult after dismantling domestic journal pub...

The call for presentations and posters is now open until 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December. Before proposing anything, please read the conference rationale & purpose, the rules below, and then browse t...

El dominio de las publicaciones científicas en el Norte Global por parte de las grandes editoriales comerciales es perjudicial para la ciencia.

The call for presentations and posters is now open until 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December. Before proposing anything, please read the conference rationale & purpose, the rules below, and then browse t...

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...

Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?

Advierte de un “drenaje de fondos” del sistema científico BARCELONA, 19 (EUROPA PRESS) Un estudio con participación del Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Ambiental de la...

The current publishing system is harmful to science. A new analysis involving ICTA-UAB, Spain, shows that in scientific publishing, commercial...