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Line honours for a prestigious wool journal

April 11, 2005

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The world's most comprehensive sheep and wool science journal, managed from the University of New England, has been reborn on the Internet.
UNE's Professor of Sheep and Wool Science, David Cottle, is Managing Editor of the International Journal of Sheep and Wool Science, which sprang to life on the Internet at the end of March. "We're using Web publishing technology developed by Berkeley Electronic Press, California, to make the information more readily available to people everywhere," Professor Cottle (pictured) said.
The electronic publication replaces (and continues the tradition of) the journal Wool Technology and Sheep Breeding, which, over the past 50 years, has built an international reputation for publishing papers on all aspects of the industry.
Professor Cottle, who was Editor of Wool Technology and Sheep Breeding from 1992, said: "By going online we're making our publication even more international."

As Managing Editor, Professor Cottle manages a group of 12 editors located around the world. He pointed out that editing technology employed for the electronic journal allowed papers to be reviewed and published very quickly, "so research results are made available as soon as possible".
"A subscription of $50 a year allows easy access to the journal, including both current papers and those from our 50-year archive," he said. "Non-subscribers are able to request and download a paper by filling in a form."
Professor Cottle commended the work of Mr Klaus Altmann, librarian at CSIRO's Livestock Industries laboratory at Chiswick near Armidale, who (with the support of the Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre) scanned in the journal's entire archive. Australian Wool Innovation funded the transfer of publication from print to the Internet.
The Web address of the journal is: http://www.une.edu.au/sheepjournal.
Media contact: Professor David Cottle, School of Rural Science and Agriculture, UNE (02) 6773 2178.


Posted by Lydia Roberts at April 11, 2005 12:37 PM