From: Colin Jackson <colin.jackson@arocha.org>
Date: 2013-07-04 12:14
Subject: Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] ejournal Ornithological Observations
I can highly recommend the Ornithological Observations journal for publishing a wide range of observations and notes of birds that the average birder will make and that are useful and important for building up our knowledge of bird behaviour, distribution, ecology, migration etc. The concept, I believe, is exactly that - many of us make notes of things we see in the field but which most journals will never accept for publication as they are not 'scientific enough' - yet are interesting and useful to have out in the public domain and referenceable. OO provides exactly this opportunity - and the template document is very easy and simple to use - just download the Word doc and pretty much fill in the spaces.

Thanks, Itai, for highlighting this to East African birders - we should get a lot more of our observations published - and also in Scopus - for any records or observations which may be of a bit more significance (Darcy - perhaps you can give some further guidance on this?).

Colin


On 03/07/13 21:12, Itai Shanni wrote:
 

The Animal Demography Unit (http://adu.org.za/) at the University of Cape Town has just sent this message on their FB page:

 

The ejournal, Ornithological Observations, has today reached 35000 downloads of the pdfs of the 93 papers published so far. If you have not yet discovered this amazing resource of fascinating observations about birds, go across to http://oo.adu.org.za/ --- the papers are arranged in four volumes, one per year starting 2010. 

After you have read a few of the papers in OO, you might well reckon that an observation you have made ranks at least equal with what you have read. Then you can download the guidelines to authors, also on the website.

OO is part of the ADU's "citizen science" mission --- This is where you can take citizen science to a higher level, and start publishing your observations, just like a scientist would. 

Well done to our readers, our authors, and especially to our editor, Arnold van der Westhuizen, for helping us get to this amazing milestone. Some of the best birding reads are in OO.

 

Itai

 

I'd rather go birding...

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