PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN SUMMER 2018 VOLUME 64 NUMBER 2 A PUBLICATION OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA IN THIS ISSUE... Theresa Culley on the perils of Rebekah Mohn wins Triarch Report from Congressional Visits predatory publishers..p. 96 photo contest....p. 79 Day participants.... p. 81 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN From the Editor Editorial Committee Volume 64 Greetings, In this summer issue of Plant Science Bulle- Kathryn LeCroy tin, you will find lots of important Society (2018) News. We have information about the up- Environmental Sciences coming Botany 2018 meeting in Rochester University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 and the traditional pre-conference list of
[email protected] award winners and election results. I am also happy to bring you this year’s reports from the annual Congressional Visits Day. I want to draw your attention to a special Melanie Link-Perez (2019) feature in this issue. One of the most im- Department of Botany portant things many of us do is publish sci- & Plant Pathology entific articles; publishing is how we com- Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 municate new knowledge and, for many
[email protected] of us, how we prove our worth to tenure committees and grant panels. However, publishing can be fraught with challenges. In this issue, Theresa M. Culley addresses the danger of predatory publishing and tips Shannon Fehlberg for avoiding inadvertently submitting your (2020) Research and Conservation work to questionable journals. Desert Botanical Garden Phoenix, AZ 85008 If you would like to discuss these issues, as
[email protected] well as other strategies for successful pub- lishing, please note that there will be a dis- cussion session on publishing held on Sun- day, July 22 in Rochester, MN.