From the inbox:
Dear Members of IIFET and/or NAAFE:
We have some very exciting news for you! The MRE Foundation, which publishes the journal Marine Resource Economics, has entered into an agreement with the University of Chicago Press (UCP) for the publication of the journal, beginning with the 2014 volume. The University of Chicago Press was founded in 1891 as part of the University. It publishes more than 60 journals and hardcover serials, presenting original research from international scholars in the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences.
We believe that this is a positive step forward for MRE, not only to maintain the journal’s editorial standards, but to enhance the distribution and visibility of the articles published. The move is also an opportunity to increase the journal’s impact factor, which recently grew to 1.261 (2012), with a five-year impact factor of 1.411.
MRE will continue to be published quarterly. Options to subscribe will include online only or online and print (print only will no longer be available). For either option, there will be the additional feature allowing the download of journal issues as e-books at no additional charge. Multi-year subscriptions and discounted rates for students will also continue. In the near future, online subscriber access to the complete set of back issue content (starting with Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1984) of MRE will be available through JSTOR. Expanded indexing, as well as search and citation-linking functionality, will make the journal’s electronic content more available and discoverable to scholars worldwide. A new feature is the creation of an electronic submission portal, allowing a simple and efficient submission and review process.
Content will also be made available to those in developing countries through the UCP’s Emerging Nations Initiative, in which readers at higher education and research institutions in more than 110 emerging nations receive access to electronic and print editions of their journals at no cost or deeply discounted rates.
Subscribers will continue to be able to subscribe directly via the MRE webpage on the University of Chicago Press website. Current subscribers will receive renewal notices for 2014 from UCP. The 2014 subscription rates are unchanged from those found inside the back cover of the most recent 2013 issue or, shortly, on the UCP webpage. Please note that the shipping charge for international subscribers has been reduced from $50 to $13 per volume. Page charges on articles published have also been reduced from $75 to $50 per printed page beginning with the 2014 volume.
Anyone who has already submitted payment for subscriptions beginning in 2014 or beyond will be seamlessly transferred to UCP’s subscriber database.
Subscription details will be forthcoming or visit the UCP website for MRE, which will be posted shortly. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Cathy Roheim, MRE Foundation Board President ([email protected]), Marty Smith, Editor of MRE ([email protected]), or Barbara Harrison, MRE Production Manager ([email protected]).
This is truly big news for MRE. Other UCP journals are Journal of Law and Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Political Economy and the new Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics. At the least, MRE will become much less obscure!
