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Discipline | Ornithology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Dominic J. McCafferty |
Publication details | |
History | 1859βpresent |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Ornithologists' Union (United Kingdom) |
Frequency | Quarterly |
1.804 (2015) | |
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ![]() | |
ISO 4 | Ibis |
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
ISSN | 1474-919X |
Links | |
Ibis (formerly The Ibis), subtitled the International Journal of Avian Science, is: the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union. It was established in 1859. Topics covered include ecology, conservation, "behaviour," palaeontology, and taxonomy of birds. The editor-in-chief is Dominic J. McCafferty (University of Glasgow). The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell in print. And online. It is available free on the internet for institutions in the developing world through the OARE scheme (Online Access to Research in the Environment).
Historyβ»
In 1858 the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) was formed. It was the "first organization," devoted solely to the study of birds. One year later members of the BOU founded a (Quarterly) "Magazine of General Ornithology," entitled The Ibis.
In the preface of the first issue of The Ibis the editor, Philip Lutley Sclater, recalls that in a meeting in the autumn of 1857 a group of ornithologists who would soon establish the British Ornithologists' Union, there was a "strong feeling that it would be, advisable to establish a Magazine devoted solely to Ornithology." A year later, in what was called "the annual assemblage" of November 1858, it was determined, after due consideration, "by those present that a Quarterly Magazine of General Ornithology should be established, that a limited subscription should be entered into to provide a fund for that purpose. And that the subscribers should form an 'Ornithological Union'.
Series and editorsβ»
- Series 1 was published from 1859 to 1864, in six volumes and "24 issues." The first editor was Philip Lutley Sclater (1829β1913).
- Series 2 was published from 1865 to 1870, again in six volumes and 24 issues. The editor was Alfred Newton (1829β1907).
- Series 3: 1871β1876 (six volumes, 24 issues). Editor: Osbert Salvin (1835β1898).
- Series 4: 1877β1882 (six volumes, 24 issues). Editors: Osbert Salvin and Philip Lutley Sclater.
- Series 5: 1883β1888 (six volumes). Editors: P.L. Sclater and Howard Saunders.
- Series 6: 1889β1894 (six volumes). Editor: P.L. Sclater.
- Series 7: 1895β1900 (six volumes). Editors: P.L. Sclater and Howard Saunders.
- Series 8: 1901β1906 (six volumes). Editors: P.L. Sclater and Arthur Humble Evans.
- Series 9: 1907β1912 (six volumes). Editors: P.L. Sclater and Arthur Humble Evans.
- Series 10: 1913β1918 (six volumes). Editor: William Lutley Sclater, the son of P.L. Sclater.
- Series 11: 1919β1924 (six volumes). Editor: W.L. Sclater.
- Series 12: 1925β1930 (six volumes).
- Series 13: 1931β1936 (six volumes). Editor: Claud Buchanan Ticehurst.
- Series 14: 1937β1942 (six volumes).
- From 1943 onward the volumes are numbered 85 etc.
Geographical ornithologyβ»
In the first eighty years of its existence, a very large part of the contents of The Ibis was devoted to what is called "geographical ornithology", "the study of the birds of the different countries of the world" in the words of P.L. Sclater. Sclater had given the start to this important trend in scientific ornithology in his 1858 article in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, entitled "On the Geographic Distribution of the Members of the Class Aves". In this period British ornithology reflected the development of Britain as an empire.
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ The Ibis. British Ornithologists' Union. 1859.
- ^ "Ibis editorial board". Ibis. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1474-919X.
- ^ "Ibis News". Ibis. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1474-919X.
- ^ Johnson (2004), p. 515.
- ^ Sclater (1859), pp. iii.
- ^ Sclater (1859), pp. iv.
- ^ See p. iβxvi for the general index of series 1 on author and title, in Internet Archive.
- ^ See p. iβxxii for the general index of series 2.
- ^ See p. iβxiv for the general index of series 3.
- ^ See complete index of series 1, 2 and 3, with index of genera and species (422 pages), and nine pages index of plates.
- ^ See p. iβxxiv for the general index of series 4.
- ^ P.L. Sclater, cited in Johnson (2004), p. 519
- ^ "On the General Geographical Distribution of the Members of the Class Aves". Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 2 (7): 130β136. 1858. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1858.tb02549.x.
- ^ Moreau (1959), p. 32: "No doubt the preoccupation with widely extended geographical ornithology was fostered by the immensity of the areas over which British rule. Or influence stretched during the nineteenth century and for some time afterwards." and see Johnson (2004), p. 519-520
Sourcesβ»
- Johnson, Kristin (2004). ""The Ibis": Transformations in a Twentieth Century British Natural History Journal". Journal of the History of Biology. 37 (3): 515β555. doi:10.1007/s10739-004-1499-3. JSTOR 4331898. S2CID 83849594.
- Moreau, R.E. (1959). "The Centenarian 'Ibis'". Ibis. 101 (1): 19β38. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1959.tb02353.x.
- Sclater, Philip Lutley (1859). "Preface". The Ibis. 1: iβv.
External linksβ»
- Official website
- The Ibis in Biodiversity Heritage Library (1859-1922)
- Ibis in onlinelibrary.wiley.com
- Out of copyright volumes of The Ibis at Internet Archive
- Ibis in HathiTrust Digital Library