[Picante-devel] New developer and manuscript plans

[Hilmar Lapp]

Hi all - sorry for the silence on my part. First off, congrats and  
welcome to your new developer!

On Nov 14, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Steven Kembel wrote:

> I was thinking Bioinformatics would be a good target journal but I'm
> open to suggestions.

Yes that would be a good target.

> There are open-access journals such as BMC Bioinformatics that would  
> be suitable as well.

There is also Evolutionary Bioinformatics:

http://www.la-press.com/evolutionary-bioinformatics-journal-j17

This is where we published the Phyloinformatics Hackathon report:

http://www.la-press.com/the-2006-nescent-phyloinformatics-hackathon-a-field-report-a480

If you want to reach mostly ecologists, there is also Molecular  
Ecology Resources (f.k.a. Molecular Ecology Notes):

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1755-098X&site=1

GeoPhylobuilder was published there. However, the journal apparently  
requires the transfer of copyright, which is not at all required for a  
commercial publisher (as OUP demonstrates, for example), and IMHO  
should not be rewarded. But I'm not the author or co-author and so  
should have no say in this :-)

> I am not sure if NESCent has support for open access publication  
> costs.


There is no general policy that NESCent would sponsor or subsidize  
open access publication costs from our sponsored projects. However,  
you would be welcome to use Google's Summer of Code organization  
payment share from your project ($500) for this purpose (I believe you  
or Matt haven't used that yet for meeting face-to-face, and don't seem  
to have urgent plans to do so?). If that would not suffice to help  
cover the costs, let me know.

	-hilmar
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