Synergy in Scientific Publishing: The ESA-Oxford University Press Partnership

You are viewing the results of a multiyear strategic process, which began with a simple question: How can we achieve the best future for ESA publications?ESA’s publishing efforts are vital to our success as a scientific society. Our journals serve as a critical element of the scientific process and the ecosystem of the discipline of entomology. Further, our publications support ESA’s core values by providing development opportunities for all members. On a financial level, revenue from ESA’s publishing arm makes many other society activities and member services possible.Although ESA has more than a century of success in journal publishing, the environment is changing in ways that create significant challenges for scientific societies. U.S. institutional library budgets are extremely tight and have … This editorial is being published in the following titles in 2015: Journal of Insect Science , Annals of the Entomological Society of America , Journal of Integrated Pest Management , Journal of Economic Entomology , Journal of Medical Entomology , Environmental Entomology , and Arthropod Management Tests .