Hi Frank,
There seems to be two addresses for Amytornis
This one at Birds Australia seems to work properly
http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/the-organisation/amytornis.html
This one on the Birds WA site (which I initially found via search engines)
seems less functional
http://www.birdswa.org.au/design1/index.html
--- On Wed, 23/3/11, Frank O'Connor <> wrote:
From: Frank O'Connor <>
Subject: Is Amytornis an online journal or not?
To: "David James" <>
Received: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011, 9:57 PM
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 ORNITHOLOGYAmytornis 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
_________________________________________________________________
Frank O'Connor Birding WA http://birdingwa.iinet.net.au
Phone : (08) 9386 5694 Email :
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