editorial
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© 1999 Mammal Society, Mammal Review, 29, 1
Mammals of Korea 1Mammal Rev. 1999, Volume 29, No. 1, 1. Printed in Great Britain.
Editorial
With this issue of Mammal Review, both the cover and content are changing. The journal willremain committed to publishing the longer, review-type, papers for which it has become known,and the pages allocated to such articles will not diminish. Reviews that assess the status of speciesover large parts of their range, that review the mammal faunas of countries or large regions, thatprovide interdisciplinary overviews of various aspects of mammalogy, particularly ecologicalissues, and that examine the techniques used to study mammals will continue to fill the bulk of thejournal. Conservation is expected to figure more obviously, and the results of the Mammal Soci-ety’s own surveys will continue to get priority.
However, the journal is being enlarged, to enable it to take the short papers that formerlyappeared in Journal of Zoology, London under the heading Communications from the MammalSociety. It was always somewhat anomalous that some of our publication efforts should appear inanother society’s journal; it was a happy historical accident that allowed this, and the MammalSociety is grateful to the Zoological Society of London for its hospitality over so many years. Wenow take responsibility for our own shorter papers. It is intended that these should be publishedmore quickly than can be the case for longer reviews, and that short papers will appear in everyissue. There is an allocation of only 12 pages per quarter, however, and the papers selected will haveto be of wide interest to the mammalogical world in general and the membership of the MammalSociety in particular. Preference will be given to those of three or four published pages. We do notexpect to take papers which could more appropriately appear in Journal of Mammalogy or Mamma-lia. To allow sufficient editorial capacity to handle the expected flow of additional papers, I amdelighted to welcome Dr Graham Smith to the editorial team. Papers intended for this format shouldbe sent to him, in the first instance, at CSL, Sand Hutton, York YO4 1LZ, UK ([email protected]). Longer papers, in the original format, should continue to be sent to me. Twocopies of the printed version and a disk copy will be required, eventually, but the disk copy is notneeded until the paper has been refereed and accepted.
D. W. YaldenManaging Editor