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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

New Malacology Open Access Journal

For everything malacological and freely available over the net! But they make no mention of page charges...

"MalaCo (ISSN 1778-3941), a peer reviewed journal referenced by the Zoological Record, is an electronical open access publication. Articles, in French or English, focus on ecology, biology, systematics and conservation of continental Molluscs. MalaCo publishes original work as well as news, short notes and practical tools for species identification.

Since November 2007, articles are available on the MalaCo website as soon as they are accepted. To submit papers, please see author recommendations and contact the editorial team.

Hoping to publish your work soon,

Best wishes,
The editorial team

Jean-Michel Bichain / MNHN Paris / France
Xavier Cucherat / Biotope consultancy / France
Benoît Fontaine / MNHN Paris / France
Olivier Gargominy / MNHN Paris / France
Vincent Prié / Biotope consultancy / France

Journal Home: http://www.journal-malaco.fr
Diffusion: open access
Online ISSN: 1778-3941
Frequency: annual or biennial
Language: French and English
First issue: May 2005
Current issue: 5 / 2007
Referenced by: Zoological Record - CIRS - BiologyBrowser (Thomson)

Contact: jean-michel[dot]bichain[at]educagri[dot]fr"

2 comments:

  1. Maybe be they do discuss page charges, but only in French.

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  2. Another open-access malacology journal is Mollusca: http://www.mollusca-journal.de/
    (the former Malakologische Abhandlungen). And they have no page charges. I am about to submit a ms to them.

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