Geoscientist 22.01 February 2012
At its November 2012 meeting Council discussed the current practice of producing an annual printed index for each of the Society's journals, and made available with the final part. For reasons of budgeting and cost-control the number of pages published in each journal each year is limited. Given that the ‘version of record’ is now online (and available to all Fellows) and that most searches are via full-text search technologies, Council feels that the pages occupied by the printed index would be more effectively used for the publication of original science. Other societies that publish their own journals (e.g. the Royal Society) have come to the same conclusion and most of our main journal competitors no longer include an index.
Fellows are invited to submit views to Jonathan Turner (Chair, Publications Management Committee) via Ted Nield, Editor, Geoscientist, before the end of March. E: [email protected].