News – February 2007

Downloadable index now available.

If you have the software ProCite© you can now use our updated index to Ursus, allowing you to search by author, keyword, etc. We will update this index yearly. It is now current through Ursus 16 (year 2005). See the “Ursus index” page.

Ursus is online!

(well, partly)

Subscribers to BioOne now have access to full-text and pdf of all articles beginning with Ursus 15.

Needless to add, Ursus is still a print journal, and is sent directly from our publisher, Allen Press, to full IBA subscribers, twice yearly.

Ursus is now indexed by Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences (and thus in catalogued in the Science Citation Index Expanded, as well as BIOSIS/Biological Abstracts/Zoological Record, and Wildlife Worldwide (NISC).

Ursus is now an "Impact Factor" journal

Ursus welcomes new Associate Editors Malcolm Fitz-Earle, S. Sathyakumar, and Toshio Tsubota.

Prospective authors are encouraged to read the “Instructions to Authors” section, where you can now download a pdf file of the paper by Ratti and Smith on writing in Journal of Wildlife Management style. For specifics, please see the latest issues of Ursus. To obtain back issues, see the “Back Issues” page.

The best way to ensure you keep abreast of new science and thoughts regarding bears, and their management and conservation, is to join the IBA (www.bearbiology.com), or click on the “Subscribe to Ursus” page. Ursus is now sent directly to all full IBA members, twice-yearly.

Rich Harris
Editor