Is Amytornis an online journal or not?

[Frank O'Connor <>]

David

As others have pointed out, Amytornis is online as part of the Birds
Australia web site.  All volumes will continue to be made available
online.  This is one of the main reasons that we incorporated the
BAWA web site into the national BA web site.

To find it, go to the Birds Australia web site (birdsaustralia.com.au),
then follow down through About BA, The Organisation, Regional Groups,
Western Australia.  Or go direct to Western Australia as
birdsaustralia.com.au/wa  (I think that the domain birdswa.com.au
redirects to here)  Amytornis is then at the top of the WA menu on
the right.

The journal is a fully refereed journal published by Birds Australia
Western Australia.  The frequency of publication depends on the rate
of submission of articles.  The  purpose of the journal is
described below as copied from the web site.

I would encourage many of the papers on the recent spate of rarities from
Cocos / Christmas and Ashmore to be submitted.  Size is not a
problem.  Numbers of photos is not a problem.  I am sure that
some of the BARC submissions could be reformatted as a journal
article.  I know that this will be done, and that some will be
submitted to Australian Field Ornithology (AFO), but please also consider
Amytornis.  I doubt that AFO would publish 10 articles on the
rarities seen?  But this would never be a problem for Amytornis, as
the birds of Christmas and Cocos are a central part of its purpose. 
The journal is in its fledgling stage, but it has an important place, and
it will only survive if people support it.

The last time I knew, articles are submitted by emailing them to
 but I have not been responsible for the WA web
site and email addresses for a couple of years so it may have changed
(e.g. there was discussion of

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Amytornis
is a forum for publication of peer-reviewed, scientific articles, notes
and annotated lists and opinions and letters to the editor, which will
appear in the Discussion section. It is hoped that through
Amytornis, more and more of the considerable amount of grey
literature and data hidden within the notebooks of naturalists will reach
publication and thus become accessible to the wider scientific community.
Articles published in Amytornis have focus on Western Australian
ornithology, included in this are the Australian Territories of Christmas
and Cocos Islands. Amytornis is envisaged as a complementary
publication to Western Australian Bird Notes, the existing well known
publication of Birds Australia Western Australia, and not as a
competitor. 

Although Amytornis has reached the stage of publication, the
outlook is still and forever changing. As this is the case, we welcome
comment from our peers as to ways we may improve what we hope will be an
informative and widely-read publication.

Managing Editor
Myles H. M. Menz

Editors
Dr Robert A. Davis, Dr Jarrad A. Cousin, Marion Massam, Dr Ryan D.
Phillips

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