Re: abstracts from journals

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>>Assuming that we are actually elected, Scott Wing and I will be assuming
>>the roles of co-editors of Paleobiology on 1 Oct. 1995. One of the changes
>>we intend to make in the journal is posting the Titles and abstracts of
>>the forthcoming issue of Paleobiology when we compose the journal.  Thus
>>those on the net should have some idea what to look forward to about 4
>>months before the issue is mailed.
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>Thank you for this service. I find it very convenient to get titles and
>abstracts from journals through other listservers, e.g. the paleolimnology
>listserver. Shall we encourage more paleontology journals or publishers to
>do the same on Paleonet? The text is in the computer anyway. What does the
>paleo community think about it?

Content lists on the net are such an obvious step that it will happen
whatever we think about it. Many journals in other fields already do it.
Speaking only for Lethaia and Fossils & Strata, we certainly intend to make
current information on recent & forthcoming issues, manuscript backlog,
subscriptions, manuscript submissions, etc. available on the net; at
present the basic information on these publications is available from the
home page of the publisher, Scandinavian University Press
(http://193.69.40.2/).

What Doug and Heinz are aiming at is perhaps something more concentrated,
like a palaeontological Current Contents on Paleonet. Sounds like a great
idea, but someone presumably has to manage it in order to make it really
useful.

Let me start by announcing the latest issue of Fossils and Strata,
published only yesterday: Noe-Nygaard, N. 1995: Ecological, sedimentary,
and geochemical evolution of the late-glacial to postglacial Åmose
lacustrine basin, Denmark. 436 pp. Fossils and Strata No. 37. ISBN
82-00-37656-7. USD 85.00. (Available from Scandinavian University Press;
see above.) Not only for Quaternary palaeontologists, it contains all the
juicy details concerning the life of prehistoric humans in northern Europe.

Off the line, Doug, great news that you consider, and are being considered
for, editing Paleobiology!

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