IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group
Volume 30 Issue 1 (January 2013)
Note from the Editor
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Otter Enthusiasts!
The IUCN OSG Bulletin seems to be quite unique as we have several issues open at the same time. Not only have we recently finished the two issues for 2012, but at the same time more articles have been added to the Proceedings from Frostburg, Hwacheon and Pavia and one of the remaining issues was digitalized. If you are not aware it may be good to know that all articles are also uploaded to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and can be searched within this huge database of free articles (http://www.doaj.org/). We will try to get all new articles online as soon as possible but please be patient if this takes some weeks as we have several issues open in parallel.
During the recent years we have put lots of efforts into improving our reviewing process. Our editorial board and the reviewers that are chosen for your articles are of excellent quality. It would definitely be of help for the future of the IUCN OSG Bulletin if you consider including references from the IUCN OSG Bulletin for your articles published in other peer reviewed journals.
There have been several meetings related to otters in the last year and we have already some dates for conferences in 2013 that you can find on the last pages of issue 29/2. Please also check regularly the website of the OSG where updates will be published whenever new events come up.
We are in urgent need of good photos of otters for which you have the copyright as we need them for the title page. If you are the copyright holder feel free to send them either to me or to Lesley. We may choose one of them for the title page of the forthcoming issues!
In 2012 Lesley has not only spend lots of time for the website and the membership committee but also uploaded two complete issue of the IUCN OSG Bulletin, while working in parallel on the three open issues of the Proceedings and still had time to prepare one of the few remaining old issues for the website. Lesley, thanks for all your continuing support.
