IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group
Volume 36 Issue 1 (January 2019)
Note from the Editor
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Otter Enthusiasts!
This is for many reasons a very special editorial note!
You may have noticed that the website of the IUCN OSG Bulletin has completely changed and is now very much alike the layout, colours, fonts etc. of the website of the IUCN OSG. However, the real difference is that we have now two technically independent websites. The reason for this is very simple – security. As the two websites serve different purposes, have a different target public and therefore have a different security architecture it was simply more secure to have them separated. A loss of all the online available information would have been a disaster. Actually, one of my next projects to be explored is on how the long-term availability via open-source data repositories may be secured.
Lesley has digitalized all remaining issues and now you have free access to all previous issues since the first one published in 1986. As mentioned in a previous editorial our journal is now indexed by Scopus and currently all articles published in 2013 or later are already available and are also counting for your metrics. More of the older issues will be included in the future.
Last year we had for the first time ever 4 issues published in one year and I want to express my sincere thanks to all reviewers and translators of the abstracts. I will put them into the spotlight in one of the later issues of 2019.
Furthermore, I would like to draw your attention to the first manuscript in this issue of Dave Rowe-Rowe, with which he exceeds 50 years of publishing on otters. I think this is a remarkable milestone! Congratulations!
I would like especially to thank Lesley who had a tremendous workload over the last months as she kept the old website alive while already working on the new one behind the scenes.
