Project Update: The Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification is on a roll Andrew Smith |
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of the Scientific Insects of the Yukon price Project Update: Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification First record of Armadillidium vulgare from Quebec The biodiversity of beetles in the Maritime provinces Arctic Corner Historical changes in the biodiversity of Muscidae and Fanniidae of Churchill Impacts to the invertebrate community structure of aquatic systems in Nunavut Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago published List of Requests for Material or Information
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The Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification (CJAI) has quickly become the flagship periodical of the Biological Survey of Canada. Four new issues have been published in the past few months on bees, mosquitoes, vespid wasps, and bee flies. These four image-rich identification guides combine to almost 700 pages covering dozens of Canadian genera and hundreds of Canadian species of insects. Looking ahead, the editors report that there are manuscripts in the works for many other taxa, including: orthopteroids, heptageniid mayflies, Psocoptera, and the Diptera families Tephritidae, Stratiomyidae, and Clusiidae. The first two issues on Mecoptera and blood and tissue feeding mites were published in 2006. The purpose of the CJAI is to provide a widely distributed, freely accessible publication outlet for researchers who would like to disseminate identification guides that include Canadian taxa. The journal is peer-reviewed, has a 14-member editorial board, and provides technical editing for images and digital keys. The CJAI has financial and technical support of the Biological Survey Foundation, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the University of Guelph, and the University of Alberta. This support will allow the CJAI to publish without page charges for the foreseeable future. The CJAI is broad in scope, and manuscripts dealing with any group of Arthropods with species occurring in Canada will be considered for publication by the editors. The focus of individual manuscripts, however, need not be solely on the Canadian species. Identification guides to taxa in North America, the northern hemisphere, the world, etc. are all welcomed. Manuscripts with a more regional focus on Canada or parts of Canada have formed the core of the journal so far and are highly encouraged. It should also be noted that new taxa cannot be described in the CJAI, but this may change in the future. Other taxonomic and classification changes (such as synonymies, subspecies elevations, etc.) are permitted. In December of 2007, Editor in Chief Steve Marshall was invited to the Entomological Collections Network annual meeting in San Diego, California to give a presentation on the CJAI. His presentation was part of a symposium on the future of entomological and other scientific publications. The CJAI was showcased as an example of the future of scientific publications with electronic distribution and open access to everyone through the Internet. The journal was very well received by the attendees of this meeting and by the greater entomological community in North America. Many entomologists would like to see more scientific publications emulate the CJAI and other open access electronic journals. If you have questions or ideas about manuscripts for the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, please contact Steve Marshall <samarsha@uoguelph.ca>, the Editor in Chief. More information on the CJAI and all of the published issues can be found at: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/ejournal/ejournal.html.
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