Abstract

Peer-reviewed publication of work presented at annual GCFI meetings is important for many GCFI members. Thus in 2017, GCFI initiated a partnership with the Gulf and Caribbean Research (GCR) journal for publication of peer-reviewed, Open Access articles. The GCR was founded in 1961 by Gordon Gunter as a publication of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and was titled Gulf Research Reports; that name persisted through 1999. The name was changed to Gulf and Caribbean Research in 2000 to better reflect the scope of manuscripts, and the journal was published in traditional hard-copy format through 2013. GCR migrated to a fully online delivery platform in April 2015 (http://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/) and offers a hybrid publication format: 1) Open Access for a fee; or 2) the abstract only available online for no fee. GCR focuses on coastal and marine resources from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; ~75% of the papers published are on fisheries-related topics and 25% are from the Caribbean area including Mexico. All papers published since 1961 (n = 511) have functional doi’s; papers from the most recent five years of publication are available for a nominal charge, while all earlier papers are Open Access. In 2016, GCR published the first in a series of Open Access invited articles from eminent senior scientists with a significant history of research in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea called ‘Ocean Reflections.’ The first GCFI Partnership article was published in July 2017, and three more Partnership articles are currently in review. Submission of articles based on GCFI presentations for peer-review and free Open Access publication is available to all GCFI members in good standing.

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