After intensive discussions throughout 2003 and at the April
2004 council meeting in Beltsville, Maryland, the Council, officers and
editor decided to update the appearance of the journal. We chose a new title: The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. We kept the
name Wilson, which honors, Alexander Wilson, the father of American
Ornithology, and allows librarians and readers to continue to shelve
volumes in the same location. We decided that the term Bulletin is
dated or parochial, and agreed that Journal of Ornithology clearly
states the subject matter of its contents.
We also chose a new cover design. The changes will not be radical:
we will still have a tasteful pale background color and a pen and ink
drawing. However, the cover of each of the four issues in the volume
will portray a different species named for Wilson (the phalarope, the
snipe, the plover and the storm-petrel). The warbler logo, designed
by George Mitsch Sutton will also still appear on the cover. Former editor, Jim Sedgwick, has labored to produce a cover worthy of our
society, and the Council and I are very pleased with the outcome. We
sincerely hope you like the new look, which debuted in the March 2006
issue. We hope that the fresh, newly designed cover will
stimulate new interest in the journal. We see these changes as
heralding a new era of improved journal quality and timeliness.
~ President Doris Watt, Summer, 2004 |
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