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Journal and BooksArctic, Antarctic, andAlpine ResearchINSTAAR publishes an international quarterly journal,Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (formerly Arctic andAlpine Research). It is a refereed interdisciplinary journaldevoted to original research papers, shorter contributions,resulting correspondence, and book reviews. This internationallyauthored and circulated journal reports on scientificor cultural aspects of arctic/subarctic, antarctic/subantarctic,and alpine/subalpine environments and related paleoenvironments.The content of the journal reflects areas ofresearch performed at INSTAAR.Suzanne Anderson and Anne Jennings were the Editorsof the journal. Larry Bowlds was the Managing Editor,assisted by Jenifer Hall-Bowman. The Book Review Editorwas James Dixon. At the end of 2006, Suzanne Andersonresigned and was replaced by William Bowman.The old Editorial Board, composed of INSTAAR andUniversity of Colorado faculty, was disbanded and replacedby a new Editorial Board, composed of the Editors, theManaging Editor, 11 Associate Editors (from the Universityof Colorado, elsewhere in the United States, Canada, andthe United Kingdom), and the Book Review Editor. Theinternational Interdisciplinary Board also was disbanded.Peer reviewers are selected by the Associate Editors. TheEditors make final decisions on all papers.During 2005, 106 papers were submitted to the journal,the same number as in 2004. Volume 37 (2005) contained644 pages. First authors from 19 countries produced 73research papers, including 26 from the United States; 6 fromthe United Kingdom; 5 from Canada; 4 each from Chinaand Switzerland; 3 each from Australia, Finland, Germany,and Norway; 2 each from Austria, France, India, Japan,Spain, and Sweden; and 1 each from the Czech Republic,Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands.During 2006, 141 papers were submitted to the journal,an increase of 33% from 2005. Volume 38 (2006) contained641 pages. First authors from 20 countries produced69 research papers, including 18 from the United States; 10from Canada; 7 from the United Kingdom; 4 from Denmark;3 each from Australia, Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland;2 each from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Italy,Japan, and Norway; and 1 each from Germany, Iceland,Poland, the Republic of Georgia, South Africa, and Spain.Subscriber numbers remained fairly constant. About 700copies of each issue were distributed to subscribers(libraries, individuals, and students), exchange partners, andothers.Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research has an impactfactor of 1.045. (An impact factor is the ratio of citations ofrecent articles to the number of recently published articles.)It was ranked number 17 out of 30 in the Physical Geographycategory and number 76 out of 140 in the EnvironmentalSciences category in Institute of Scientific Information’sJournal of Citation Reports (2005).ISSN 1523-0430http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/index.html (journal home page)http://www.bioone.org (full text online)http://aaar.allentrack2.net/ (manuscript submission site)Vol. 38, No. 2MAY 2006The journal has a dedicated web site (http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/index.html) that includes general informationabout the journal, contents and abstracts from 1996to the present, instructions for manuscript submission, andsubscription information. Full text from 2003 to the presentis available online at BioOne (http://www.bioone.org)through institutional subscriptions. Full text from 1969 to2003 is available at JSTOR (http://www.JSTOR.org) throughinstitutional subscriptions. During 2006, the journal becameavailable as full text on EBSCOhost (http://search.epnet.com/), a subscription service for academic libraries. Late in2006, the journal began working with MetaPress to establisha stand-alone web site for full text access. The site isexpected to become active during the first half of 2007, andthis will permit the journal to offer online as well as printsubscriptions for the first time.Occasional PapersINSTAAR also publishes an irregular monograph series, theOccasional Papers. This series is a miscellaneous collectionof reports and papers on work performed by INSTAAR personneland their associates that is generally too long or toodata intensive for publication in research journals. OccasionalPaper No. 57, Water Quality Characteristics for theSnake River, Peru Creek, and Deer Creek in Summit County,Colorado: 2001 to 2002, by Andrew S. Todd, Diane M.McKnight, and Sabre M. Duren, was published in 2005.Occasional Paper 58, Glaciers and the Changing EarthSystem: a 2004 Snapshot, by Mark B. Dyurgerov and Mark F.Meier, was also published in 2005.PUBLICATIONS | 59