Scuola di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali, Alimentari e Ambientali (SAFE), Università della Basilicata, viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, I-85100 Potenza (Italy)
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse (CNR-IBBR), v. Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI (Italy)
Forest@, the open access journal of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF), was launched in 2004. This note provides a short overview of the developments in scientific publishing over the past twenty years, with a focus on the consolidation of the open access model. We discuss the status of the two SISEF journals regarding the following aspects: the international journal, iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry, has a broad readership and attracts interest in developing countries; the Italian-language journal, Forest@, has seen a decrease in the number of manuscripts submitted each year.
