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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. With table of contents and abstracts.
Ameghiniana (Asociación Paleontológica Argentina). Table of contents and abstracts, AMEGHINIA 37 (2000).
American Journal of Botany: Abstracts and Tables of Contents. See also http://www.amjbot.org/. Overseas viewers have a special site for faster transmission speeds at http://intl.amjbot.org/. To see the current issue, please visit http://www.amjbot.org/current.shtml.
American Scientist. The latest issue. American Scientist is a general-interest science magazine.
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (Missouri Botanical Garden Press). Table of Contents of the current year´s Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. See also here, and there.
Annual Reviews. The mission of Annual Reviews is to provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. Full Online Access for Articles. Go to Search All Available Annual Reviews Content, Keyword Search, e.g. in "Word(s) Anywhere in Article". Excellent!
Argumenta Palaeobotanica. From Münster, Germany.
The Australian Journal of Botany. See also here.
Australian Systematic Botany. See also here.
The Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter. The ASBS Newsletter appears quarterly keeping members informed of Society events and news, and providing a vehicle for debate and discussion. In addition, original articles, notes and letters (not exceeding ten published pages in length) will be considered.
Beringeria. Publication organ of the Institute of Palaeontology, University of Würzburg
Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe E, Paläobiologie. Publication organ of the Institute of Palaeontology, FU Berlin.
Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica. Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica (sponsored by the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan), is issued quarterly, in January, April, July, and October, with one volume per year. Papers are published in English with a Chinese abstract.
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Botanical Electronic News: BEN ARCHIVE.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Or access via INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ELECTRONIC ACCESS LIBRARY (IDEAL). IDEAL is an online electronic library containing all 175 Academic Press journals. Abstracts and tables of contents are presented in HTML and full-text articles are delivered in Adobe Acrobat© format.
The Botanical Review. Published by The New York Botanical Garden. See also: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/spub/botr/frontpge.html
Brittonia. Brittonia (The New York Botanical Garden), assuming the broadest possible definition of the field of systematic botany, has been an important outlet for the publication of original research articles on anatomy, botanical history, chemotaxonomy, morphology, paleobotany, phylogenetic systematics, taxonomy, and phytogeography. See also here.
BULLETIN DU MUSÉUM NATIONAL D´HISTOIRE NATURELLE, Paris. The Bulletin publishes three sections: Section A, Zoology; Section B, Botany; Section C, Earth Sciences. See also here
Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society.
Coloquios de Paleontología. Departamento de Paleontología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Cretaceous Research. Cretaceous Research provides a forum for the rapid publication of research on all aspects of the Cretaceous Period, including its boundaries with the Jurassic and Tertiary.
The Cycad Newsletter. Provided by the Cycad Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of cycads through education and scientific research.
Doklady Botanical Sciences (Doklady Akademii Nauk). Doklady Botanical Sciences publishes the most significant new research in botanical sciences being done in Russia today. The journal contain English translations of current Russian research in the botany, phytopathology, plant anatomy, plant ecology, plant embryology, plant morphology, and plant physiology sections of the Doklady Akademii Nauk (Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences). The Proceedings appear 36 times per year; articles from the selected botanical sections are collected, translated, and published in 2 issues per year. With table of contents.
EON. The Newsletter of the Paleontology Division of the Geological Association of Canada.
The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium: Newsletter from the Smithsonian ETE Program.
Facies. An international journal of palaeontology - sedimentology - geology. With table of contents.
Feddes Repertorium. WILEY-VCH Verlag, Berlin. Without tables of contents. See also here.
FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS II: PLANTAE. Table of Contents.
Fossils and Strata. Content of recent issues. Fossils and Strata is an international series of monographs and memoirs in palaeontology and biostratigraphy, complementing the journals Lethaia and Boreas.
Freiberger Forschungshefte. Abstracts available.
Frontiers in Bioscience. A journal and virtual library. "Frontiers in Bioscience" is a non-profit platform created by scientists for scientists for fostering international scientific communication.
Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck. With table of contents and abstracts. Many Triassic topics!
HMS Beagle, a publication of BioMedNet.
International Journal of Coal Geology
International Journal of Plant Sciences. Go to the Electronic Edition.
IOP Newsletters. The International Organisation of Palaeobotany (Gar W. Rothwell, Ohio University). The web version is posted as a PDF file, and requires that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to access such files. To see older issues, go here: IOP-Newsletter (M.C. Boulter, University of East London).
Journal of Ecology. Journal of Ecology publishes original research papers on all aspects of ecology of plants (including algae) in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
The Journal of Evolutionary Biology. The aim of the Journal is to integrate perspectives across molecular and microbial evolution, behaviour, genetics, ecology, life histories, development, palaeontology, systematics and morphology.
Journal of Paleontology. See also
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/paleo/JP.html
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! The Paleontological Society:
Paleontological Journals Online
("Paleobiology" and "Journal of Paleontology"). Go to:
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Kew Scientist on-line. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lethaia. Lethaia (Taylor & Francis) is a leading international journal that emphasizes new developments and discoveries in palaeobiological and biostratigraphical research. See also here.
Linnean Society Palaeobotany Specialist Group (Palaeobiology at Cardiff): Palaeobotany Group News. A forum for studies of fossil plants. The (±) twice-a-year newsletter of the Linnean Society Palaeobotany Specialist Group. Issue 15. May 27, 1999. Visit the Report on the LSPbSG 1999 Spring Meeting, "Advances in Palaeobotanical Research" by Imogen Poole.
MANGROVES AND SALT MARSHES. This new scientific journal is published by Kluwer Scientific Publisher, Amsterdam.
Marine Micropaleontology (Elsevier).
Mémoires du Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
Microscopy Online.
A hyper-journal published on the World Wide Web.
Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie (in German).
NATURE.
Table of contents, summaries of recent articels with
supplementary information,
as well as downloadable indexes of previous
issues are available after a nitpicking registration procedure. You will need the
Adobe Acrobat reader to view and print the index.
The German gateway to Nature: deutsche.nature.com (Macmillan Publishers Ltd).
Naturwissenschaften. This interdisciplinary journal (Springer-Verlag) publishes review articles and short original articles of all kinds of scientific fields. The electronic edition provides access to tables of contents and abstracts of issues from 1994 onwards.
Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen. Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen forms a new monograph series in which contributions to palaeontology will appear at irregular intervals.
NewScientist, Planet Science; Magazine
ORYCTOS. Edited by the Musée des Dinosaures of Espéraza, France.
Paläontologie aktuell. Information about the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (in German).
Paläontologische Zeitschrift. Issued by the Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Germany. With table of contents.
PALEOBIOLOGY. With table of contents and abstracts.
PaleoBios. PaleoBios is a peer-reviewed journal produced by the University of California Museum of Paleontology (issued in three numbers each year).
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Palaeontographica. Abteilung A publishes papers on paleozoological and stratigraphic problems while papers published in Abteilung B deal with paleophytological (paleobotanical) problems and their application to stratigraphy. Go to Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeophytology. With table of contents.
Palaeontographica Canadiana. See also http://www.esd.mun.ca/~gac/PUBLICAT/pubdesc.html#pc
Palaeontographia Italica. With index and abstracts 1995-1996.
Palaeontologia africana Contents of the most recent issue.
PALAEONTOLOGIA POLONICA. With contents and abstracts of current issues.
Norman MacLeod: Palaeontologica Electronica. Palaeontologia Electronica (owned by Coquina Press) is a general paleontological journal of the widest possible scope (e.g. micropaleontology, palynology, invertebrate paleontology, paleobotany, vertebrate paleontology).
Palaeontology. Palaeontology is the journal of the Palaeontological Association. With table of contents. See also: Palaeontology. The journal Palaeontology is devoted to the publication of papers on all aspects of palaeontology, including palaezoology, palaeobotany, systematic studies, palaeoecology, micropalaeontology, palaeobiogeography, functional morphology, stratigraphy, taxonomy, taphonomy, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, palaeoclimate analysis and biomineralization studies.
PALAEONTOLOGY NEWSLETTER. The Newsletter for members of the Palaeontological Association.
PALAIOS. An international journal of SEPM. This journal is devoted to application of paleontology in solving geologic problems in a broad spectrum of subdisciplines including stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleogeography, paleoecology, and paleobiology. With table of contents. See also: Robert A. Gastaldo and Charles E. Savrda: PALAIOS Regime, Rumors, Realities, and Remedies. From PALAIOS, Volume 12.1, February 1997.
Paleobiology.
Paleobiology, the journal of the Paleontological Society,
is published quarterly and focuses on the biological aspects of paleontology.
With tables of
contents. See also:
! The Paleontological Society:
Paleontological Journals Online
("Paleobiology" and "Journal of Paleontology"). Go to:
View Archives. So far as I have seen full access until
the end of year! Excellent!
Paleontological Journal (Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal), Moscow. Paleontological Journal is the principal Russian periodical in paleontology. The journal publishes original work on the anatomy, morphology, and taxonomy of fossil organisms, as well as their distribution, ecology, and origin. It also publishes studies on evolution of organisms, ecosystems, and biosphere, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and Asia. With table of contents and abstracts.
Paleontological Research. Geological Institute, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. Table of contents and abstracts (partly).
PALYNOLOGY. Palynology is a journal published annually by the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation. With abstracts.
The International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS). Scroll down and read online: PALYNOS Newsletter.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Ser. B: Biological Sciences.
Plant Science Bulletin (The Botanical Society of America). This is an informal communication published four times a year, with information on upcoming meetings, courses, field trips, news of colleagues, new books, and professional opportunities.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. This journal (Springer) is devoted to publishing original papers and reviews on plant systematics in the broadest sense, encompassing evolutionary, phylogenetic and biogeo-graphical studies at the populational, specific, higher taxonomic levels. Taxonomic emphasis is on green plants.
PNAS Online (published by the National Academy of Sciences). PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Precambrian Research (Elsevier). Precambrian Research publishes studies on all aspects of the early stages of the composition, structure and evolution of the Earth and its planetary neighbours.
PRISCUM.
A newsletter, sponsored by The Paleontological Society. Go to:
The latest issue of PRISCUM.
Radiocarbon. Radiocarbon is the main international journal of record for research articles and date lists relevant to 14C and other radioisotopes and techniques used in archaeological, geophysical, oceanographic and related dating.
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. With table of contents. abstracts, and search facilities on abstracts, authors and keywords.
Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontología. Go to: Marcos A. Lamolda, Facultad de Ciencias-UPV, Lejona, Spain: Palatina.
Revista española de Paleontología. Go to: Marcos A. Lamolda, Facultad de Ciencias-UPV, Lejona, Spain: Palatina.
Revue de Paléobiologie. (Natural History Museum, Geneva).
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia publishes original papers (in English) dealing with all fields of paleontology and micropaleontology, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentology, mostly from the Italian and Mediterranean region. With index and abstracts.
Russian Journal of Ecology (Ekologiya). The journal publishes complete original studies in all branches of theoretical and experimental ecology. With table of contents and abstracts.
SCANNING. Scanning provides an international and interdisciplinary medium for the rapid exchange of information among all scientists interested in scanning electron, scanning probe, and scanning optical microscopies.
SCIENCE Magazine On-Line. Weekly journal by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publishes research in every field of science. Go to the Search Engine. Search for authors, titles, subjects and words in abstracts.
Science Service, Washington, DC: Science News Online. Science Service is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages through publications and educational programs. Search the archives of selected full-text articles & online features.
Dan Hogan & Michele Philpot:
ScienceDaily Magazine.
ScienceDaily is a free online magazine that brings you breaking news
about the latest discoveries and research projects.
Scientific American.
Selected articles from the current and previous issues.
Search Engine.
Article search by keyword or concept.
Palaeobotanical and Palynological Society Utrecht (PPGU): Stuifmail. Stuifmail is a quaterly magazine, in which students and employees of the Utrecht Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology and all people who are in some way related to the laboratory can write on their research, fieldtrips, excursions and other experiences.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Every issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution
provides succinct summaries, opinion and
discussion of the most exciting current research in
all aspects of ecology and evolutionary biology,
from molecular to global.
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Special Issues)
Trends in Plant Science. Access to abstracts is free of charge. Also available via http://www.biomednet.com/library/plants
Tübinger Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten (TGA).
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