Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club

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Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 137(1) cover.jpg
Volume 137, issue 1, March 2017
DisciplineOrnithology
LanguageEnglish
Edited by
Publication details
History1892-present
Publisher
Frequencyquarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Bull. Br. Ornithol. Club
Indexing
ISSN0007-1595 (print)
2513-9894 (web)
Links

The Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club is an ornithological journal published by the British Ornithologists' Club (BOC). It is cited as Bull. B. O. C.

Many descriptions of birds new to science have been published in the bulletin.

The journal was first published in 1892. It is published in four quarterly issues. from March 2017 (Vol. 137 No. 1), it became an online-only, open access, journal, giving as the reasons for the change:[1][2]

the realities of current trends in academic journal publication, the slow decline in the readership of the hard copy Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. and our public benefit charitable responsibilities.

Since 2004, the journal's honorary editor has been .

List of editors[]

List of Bulletin Editors with dates of tenure [3]

  • Richard Bowdler Sharpe 1892–1904
  • W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 1904–1914
  • David Armitage Bannerman 1914–1915
  • D. Seth-Smith 1915–1920
  • Percy R. Lowe 1920–1925
  • Norman B. Kinnear 1925–1930
  • 1930–1935 and 1940–1945
  • 1935–1940 and 1947–1952
  • 1945–1947
  • 1952–1961
  • 1962–1969
  • 1969–1974
  • Hugh Elliott 1974–1975
  • 1976–1990
  • D.W. Snow 1991–1997
  • 1997–2003
  • 2004–

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Pitches, Adrian (May 2017). "Bull. BOC moves online". British Birds. 110: 255.
  2. ^ Storey, Chris (March 2017). "Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club". 137 (1). British Ornithologists' Club. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ BOC website


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