Beginning with Volume 14, issue 1 (published in March 2008), WILDLIFE BIOLOGY now offers online subsription to WiLDLIFE BIOLOGY through IngentaConnet. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY will of course continue to be available through BioOne.2 as well.
In 2008 (Volume 14, issues 1-4) the subscription prices are:
Institutional subscriptions:
Printed subscription: 1,000.00 DKK ~ 135.00 € ex VAT and service charge
Online subscription: 1,500.00 DKK ~ 201.50 € ex VAT and service charge
Online + printed subscription: 1,800.00 DKK ~ 241.50 € ex VAT and service charge
Personal subscriptions:
Printed subscription: 750.00 DKK ~ 101.00 € ex VAT and service charge
Online subscription: 1,000.00 DKK ~ 135.00 € ex VAT and service charge
Online + printed subscription: 1,200.00 DKK ~ 161.00 € ex VAT and service charge
To all the above-mentioned prices should be added a service charge of 75.00 DKK ~ 10.00 € ex VAT per payment.
To find out whether or not you have to pay VAT, please check our subscription prices.
If you have already paid for a printed subscription in 2008 and wish to convert it to an online subscription or an online + printed subscription, you can do so by paying the difference. Please contact the Editorial Office, if you wish to do so.
The WB website is at present being redesigned and modernised. This is a long process, but we will do our best to have the new site ready within the next few weeks. No updates will be made to the old site, but until our new site is up and running, abstracts of recent articles published in WB can be viewed at www.bioone.org. Thank you for your understanding.
We are aware that the increasing backlog of accepted papers may deter authors from submitting articles to WILDLIFE BIOLOGY. Therefore it is our first priority to bring down the backlog to an acceptable level. To help us reach this goal the Editorial Board of Wildlife Biology have decided to introduce a page charge for articles comprising more than 10 pages. The page charge is set at DKK 500.00 (approx. € 68.00 or US $ 90.00) per page above 10, meaning that for a 12-page article there will be a page charge of DKK 1,000.00. The page charge is applicable only to papers submitted in 2007 and later, i.e. articles are submitted before 1 January 2007 will not be affected. The purpose of this is not to make money, but to encourage our authors to write shorter articles, and thus to make room for more articles in each issue. Students or researchers without institutional affiliations may be granted exemption from the pages charges after agreement with the Editorial Board. Authors of accepted papers may therefore soon receive the good news that their papers will be published sooner than expected and it is our sincerest hope that this new strategy will help us bring down our backlog.
As a rule of thumb, one set page consists of 4.000 characters including spaces. So an aricle of 10 pages can contain 40.000 characters including spaces. If there are tables and figures in your articles the number of characters will be lower. Tables are printed in widths of either 75 or 155 mm and figures in widths of 65, 90 or 145 mm + 10 mm for the grey frame. When your article has been accepted for publication, the Editorial Office will send you an e-mail with an estimate of the number of pages of your set article. If your article is estimated to be larger than 10 pages, you will have the options to either shorten your article in cooperation with your Associate Editor or the pay the page charge (or apply for an exemption). Please note that page charges should be paid before printing.
Up until now WILDLIFE BIOLOGY has been printed in and distributed from Denmark, but due to increasing costs we have decided to team up with Allen Press in the U.S. who from the beginning of 2007 will be responsible for the printing and distribution of WILDLIFE BIOLOGY. This may free some means which will be used to increase the number of pages per issue. Our move to Allen Press will have another implication for our authors. Changes to articles that have been technically edited and set will now have a price. Allen Press will charge us for every change they have to make to articles that have already been set, and we have no other option than to forward this charge to our authors. This will not be done for profits, but only to neutralise costs. This means that any changes/corrections to the text, tables, legends or figures - other than corrections of mistakes or errors made by the Editorial Office - after the article has been set will be charged with up to 3.50 € per change/correction plus a service charge of 10.00 €. All prices are excluding VAT and 25% VAT will be charged to all countries within the EU unless a valid VAT registration number can be provided.
In 2007 WILDLIFE BIOLOGY will publish two supplementary issues; one contains the proceedings of the 10th International Grouse Symposium held in Bagnères de Luchon, France, during 26-30 September 2005, the other contains the proceedings of the 1st International Wolverine Symposium held in Jokkmokk, Sweden, on 13-15 June 2005. All subscribers to WILDLIFE BIOLOGY will receive the two supplementary issues free of charge.
We are very pleased to announce that as of 2007 WILDLIFE BIOLOGY will be published online as part of BioOne's new collection, BioOne.2. For further information and subscription prices, please visit http://www.bioone.org.
The 2005 Journal Citation Reports have been released and WILDLIFE BIOLOGY has been rated as follows:
Wildlife Biology - 2005 impact factor 0.724
Wildlife Biology - 2004 impact factor 0.535
Wildlife Biology - 2003 impact factor 0.547
Wildlife Biology - 2002 impact factor 0.561
Wildlife Biology - 2001 impact factor 0.603
- No longer available
Due to lack of storage space, the NKV board has decided to offer back volumes of Wildlife Biology at a special reduced price. Volume 1-10 can now be acquired for DKK 75.00 excl. VAT (IVA) + postage. Postage rates differ according to country and mode of dispatch, e.g. for Norway the postage would be DKK 235.00 for the most expensive and fastest mode of dispatch, and for the USA the price would be DKK 667.00 for the most expensive and fastest mode of dispatch. For the exact price to your country, please contact the Editorial Office. To order the back volumes please use our special order form.
To prevent long delays before acknowledging receipt of submitted articles, we have now changed the subscription procedure so that all manuscripts should now be sent to both the Editor-in-Chief (loison@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr) and the Editorial Office (jb@wildlifebiology.com and helle@wildlifebiology.com). The Editorial Office will assign reference numbers to submitted manuscripts and will acknowledge receipt. The Editor-in-Chief will assign an Associate Editor and will inform authors who their Associate Editor for a given manuscript will be.
After 5 years as Editor-in-Chief of Wildlife Biology, Jon Swenson has decided to step down. The NKV board has appointed Dr Anne Loison as the new Editor-in-Chief as of today. For Dr Anne Loison's contact details, please click here.
Due to an increasing number of inquiries about publication dates for accepted manuscripts, the NKV has decided to publish a list of accepted manuscripts including titles, names of authors and scheduled publication date. To view the list, please click here.
To deal with an increasing back log of accepted manuscripts, the NKV has decided to increase the number of pages per issue from 80 to 96 pages. An increase in pages leads to an increase in costs. Therefore, it has been necessary to increase the subscription price of WILDLIFE BIOLOGY from DKK 600.00 per volume to DKK 750.00 per volume for personal subscriptions and DKK 1000.00 for institutional subscriptions as of volume 12. The price for a single issue will be DKK 250.00 and DKK 350.00 for personal orders and institutional orders, respectively.
The Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage (ONCFS) has joined the NKV as an associate member. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY was formed by the Nordic countries, which terminated their national journals. France has done the same, by terminating "Game and Wildlife Science". Having France as a part of NKV is very important for WB, because we increase our professional base in Europe. Subscribers to "Game and Wildlife Science" will receive WILDLIFE BIOLOGY instead in 2005.
We now welcome abstracts in national languages of accepted articles. Such abstracts will be uploaded to our website and will thus be accessible through the internet.
Our Guidelines to Authors have been updated. As of now manuscripts should only be submitted electronically as both a Word- and PDF-file. The second major change is that from now on multiple-author citations should be cited as 'surname et al.' throughout the article.
As of now, corresponding authors of articles printed in WILDLIFE BIOLOGY will receive - free of charge - a pdf-file of his/her article in stead of printed reprints. The pdf-file may be distributed freely under the constraints of international copyright law. Printed reprints may still be purchased at a price depending on the number of pages in the article.
The 2002 Journal Citation Reports have been released and WILDLIFE BIOLOGY has been rated as follows:
Wildlife Biology - 2002 impact factor 0.561
The 2001 Journal Citation Reports have been released and WILDLIFE BIOLOGY has been rated as follows:
Wildlife Biology - 2001 impact factor 0.603
ranked 76 out of 102 in category Ecology
ranked 70 out of 110 in category Zoology
During 2001 many articles have been accepted for publication in WILDLIFE BIOLOGY, meaning that the time lapse between acceptance and publication has increased considerably; therefore we have decided to extend the contents of WILDLIFE BIOLOGY from 64 pages to 80 pages in 2002. This, on the other hand, means that we have had to increase the subscription price a little, so that from next year the annual subscription fee will increase from DKK 500 excl. VAT to DKK 600 excl. VAT. At the same time we have terminated our campaign, but older volumes of WILDLIFE BIOLOGY may still be acquired with considerable discounts if bought together with new volumes, and we have also kept the discounts on subscriptions covering 2 (volumes 8-9) or 3 years (volumes 8-10). For further details, see our Order Form.
As of today it is possible to submit manuscripts as pdf-files. So, to save time and money, create a pdf-file of your manuscript and send it by e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief, Jon Swenson.
At the moment we are running a campaign which includes special offers of Wildlife Biology. For further details see our campaign Order Form.
In an attempt to speed up the editing process of manuscripts we have changed our editorial procedures. As a result we now require 5 copies of submitted manuscripts.
After 6 years as Editor-in-Chief of Wildlife Biology, Harto Lindén has decided to step down. The NKV board has appointed Professor Jon E. Swenson as the new Editor-in-Chief. Jon Swenson has already taken over, and new manuscripts should be sent to him. For address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail click here.
Further to the credit cards mentioned below, it is now also possible to use American Express cards to pay for subscriptions.
Payment by credit card is now available. At present the following credit cards may be used: Dankort, Master/Eurocard, Visa and JCB. If you want to take out a subscription to Wildlife Biology using your credit card, please click here for the pdf version of our order form, fill in the required information, sign the form and fax it to the Editorial Office.
To ensure a high turnover rate of manuscripts, Wildlife Biology has introduced a time limit for revision of manuscripts of 3 or 4 months depending on the degree of revision requested. The exact deadline is set by the Associate Editor. Authors who are unable to meet the deadline set by the Associate Editor may ask for a respite.
Beginning with V. 5(1) Wildlife Biology is indexed in the Science Citation Index - Expanded (also known as SciSearch), ISI Alerting Services, and Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences. Furthermore Wildlife Biology is cited in BIOSIS/Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record, in CABS (Amsterdam) and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
Page charges have been removed. See the editorial of Volume 5, 1.