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(Message started by: Carrie Ma on Jan 31^st, 2006, 12:16am)

Title: Ornithological Worldwide Literature　世界鳥類學論文摘要
Post by Carrie Ma on Jan 31^st, 2006, 12:16am

Message from Asia Pacific Migratory Waterbirds e-mail group for members' interest.

-----Original Message-----
From: Taej Mundkur
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 7:43 PM
To: Asia Pacific Migratory Waterbirds; Orientalbirding
Subject: [APMW] Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)

FYI, information on a very useful website Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL) is appended below.

With best wishes, Taej

Dr. Taej Mundkur
Wetlands International - South Asia

http://egizoosrv.zoo.ox.ac.uk/OWL/

OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.  A major attraction is its coverage of the 'grey' literature, which are not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological Record or the Science Citation Index.

OWL deals chiefly with serial publications such as periodicals but also announces new and renamed journals and provides abstracts of other serial publications, conference proceedings, reports, and doctoral dissertations. Papers dealing exclusively with domestic and pet birds and their husbandry are excluded unless they are applicable to non-domestic birds.

OWL was previously known as the Recent Ornithological Literature (ROL) or as Recent Ornithological Literature Online (ROLO). The scope of OWL will be more than just the "recent" literature of ornithology.

Eventually, the online database will go back 50 or more years to acquire citations to the serial literature. OWL will proceed well into this century with a database of the current worldwide literature that would be of interest to ornithologists.

OWL is a joint effort between the American Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Union and Birds Australia. The database is hosted by the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, based in the Zoology Department of Oxford University, UK