Dear taxacomers: A colleague gently send a link to a Nature editorial on Open Access publishing. In case you are interested please find the link(s) below. I know the topic has been raised before in the list. I think this will be especially important in taxonomy now that e-only publication is possible. Predatory publishers are corrupting open access: http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385 (A) List of predatory open access publishers: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ cheers sergio -- Dr. rer. nat. Sergio Vargas R. s.vargas at lrz.uni-muenchen.de sergio.vargasr at ecci.ucr.ac.cr check my webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/marinemolecularevolution/ check my research ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-5678-2011