![]() We urge authors of conservation science to pay for open access on a per-article basis or to choose publication in open access journals, taking care to ensure the license allows reuse for any purpose providing attribution is given. However, important initiatives such as Research4Life are making science available to organizations in developing countries. ![]() The cost of accessing the full body of conservation science runs into tens of thousands of dollars per year for institutional subscribers, and many conservation practitioners cannot access pay-per-view science through their workplace. ![]() ![]() Seventeen of the 20 conservation journals offer an open access option, but fewer than 5% of the papers are available through open access. This compares poorly with a comparable set of 20 evolutionary biology journals, where 31.93% of papers are freely downloadable and 7.49% are open access. Moreover, only 938 papers (4.88%) meet the standard definition of open access in which material can be freely reused providing attribution to the authors is given. Of the 19,207 papers published, 1,667 (8.68%) are freely downloadable from an official repository. We assessed the extent to which scientific research published since the year 2000 in 20 conservation science journals is publicly available. Conservation science is a crisis discipline in which the results of scientific enquiry must be made available quickly to those implementing management.
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