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Ten years of AoB PLANTS the open access journal for plant scientists: inception and progress since 2009
1School of Biological Sciences, Bristol Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Abstract:
AoB PLANTS is a not-for-profit, open access, plant science journal and one of three peer-reviewed journals owned and managed by the Annals of Botany Company. This article explains events and thinking that led to the starting of AoB PLANTS and how the unique features of the Journal came to be formalized prior to its launch in September 2009. The article also describes how the Journal's management developed over the first 10 years and summarizes the Journal's achievements in a decade where open access journals have proliferated despite subscription journals continuing to dominate the publishing of peer-reviewed botanical science.
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