Biodiversity: crises past and present, and future challenges

Biodiversity: crises past and present, and future challenges Editorial (4403) Total Article Views Authors: Lane DJW Published Date June 2011 Volume 2011:1 Pages 1 - 2 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RRBS.S19443 David JW Lane Department of Biology, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam This inaugural issue of a new biodiversity journal, Research and Reports in Biodiversity Studies (RRBS), is one of many new scientific Journals that are appearing and competing for ratings in the academic arena. Librarians, institutes of higher education, and funding agencies might despair of being able to source the funding needed to sustain institutional subscriptions or authorship fees for new journals, yet, as indicated below, there has never, unfortunately, been a greater need for advancing and reporting knowledge of biodiversity, its preservation, and its presentation to a wide audience. Open-access journals, such as this one, provide an ideal platform for alerting the scientific and media world to biodiversity issues and the growing threats to the world's living heritage. RRBS, with its open-access, electronic format, has several advantages over traditional subscription-based journals for disseminating new ideas, discoveries, and status reports on biodiversity. For example, while maintaining quality of peer review, throughput times are rapid, articles are not rejected due lack of space, and (being online) expensive production costs for graphics are virtually eliminated. And, of course, articles have free, unrestricted access. This niche in the publishing world and RMBR, specifically, consequently provides a much-needed venue for perhaps one of the most important topics for all humanity today - that of biodiversity. Post to: Cannotea Citeulike Del.icio.us Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Readers of this article also read: Local anesthetic failure associated with inflammation: verification of the acidosis mechanism and the hypothetic participation of inflammatory peroxynitrite Morgellons disease: Analysis of a population with clinically confirmed microscopic subcutaneous fibers of unknown etiology Intercellular cancer collisions generate an ejected crystal comet tail effect with fractal interface embryoid body reassembly transformation Biodiversity of wine grapes: less than we thought Improved understanding and satisfaction with a modified informed consent document: a randomized study Autologous bone marrow cell therapy for peripheral arterial disease Recent scenario of airborne pollens of Lucknow, India with special reference to intra- and interannual, diurnal, and vertical variation Treating thalassemia major-related iron overload: the role of deferiprone First-line treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia with nilotinib: critical evaluation Randomized double blind trial of ciprofloxacin prophylaxis during induction treatment in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the WK-ALL protocol in Indonesia