Want to help fund the free publication of sauropod science? Now’s your chance!
Anyone who’s been reading this blog for a while knows that Matt and I are both all in on open access. What is the point of “publishing” something that not everyone can read? We always want our work to be available to the widest possible audience, so it’s a no-brainer that we won’t let it moulder behind a paywall.
But the process of scholarly publication does cost money. Nowhere near as much as commercial publishers charge, sure, but there is an irreducible cost which has to be paid somehow.
And now, here comes Diplodocoidea (Dinosauria, Sauropoda): Systematics, Phylogeny, Biogeography!
This is the snappy title of a “virtual edited volume” on Diplodocoids, which is being published a chapter at a time at the venerable open-access journal Palaeontologia Electronica (PE for short). Each chapter comes out as soon as it’s ready, and you’ve probably already seen the first two:
- A new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA (Ardetosaurus viator)
- Introduction to Diplodocoidea (I was an author on this one: see the introduction to the introduction.)
Two more chapters have already been accepted and are in press; and a fifth is in review. There are plenty more in preparation, including at least one more new diplodocoid. A link to each paper will appear in the Table of Contents page, so that page will always be an index to all the available content.
To cover their costs for this volume, PE needs $3000. That comes out crazy cheap — we’re looking at a double-digit number of papers, so the cost to make each one freely available to the whole world in perpetuity is less than $300.
To raise this money, the group has kicked off a crowdfunding effort. It has a little under a month to raise the necessary $3000, and as I write this it’s 20% of the way to that goal. If you can afford to chip in, please do get yourself over there and make a contribution. You’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you helped increase the world’s access to knowledge of diplodocoids.
Source: https://svpow.com/2025/09/25/want-to-help-fund-the-free-publication-of-sauropod-science-nows-your-chance/
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