Quo vadis ERA ? - Editorial 2024

The first volume of ERA was completed in 2003. Over the last two decades, the journal has diligently pursued its stated aims, as declared in the editorial of its inaugural issue: “to serve as a free, browsable, non-proprietary, searchable electronic publication which can be inexpensively and quickly produced and distributed via the Internet to make ethnobotanical research material available worldwide” (McClatchey & Thomas, 2003). ERA at that time attempted to fill a gap that existing journals in the field had left: publication with complete open access to information inexpensive publication rapid peer-review and publication continuous publication of peer-reviewed research multi-media support for various data support of a plurality of perspectives and languages Now, after 20 years of publication, ERA still follows these guidelines, and still provides completely free open access publications for both authors and readers. However, publication practice does have changed over the years.