Evolution: Education and Outreach

Hi everyone! I have finally managed to set aside some time to start blogging for Evolution: Education & Outreach. Information about new articles is automatically posted; I don’t know if I like that. It clutters up the blog, and—supposing I manage to post regularly—may end up obscuring “real” posts. I suppose the challenge is to write many, many such posts, so as to overwhelm the entries concerning the new articles. That’s a good goal, I think . . .

As you will see if you are looking at this blog, articles have been appearing online recently. This provides me with a good opportunity to explain how our journal is published. When a new article makes it through the refereeing process, it goes on to the production department; and when the paper has been proofread and formatted for publication, it is immediately posted to the  online table of contents for the next issue. The print version of the paper many not appear for several months, however. I think Springer calls this “Online first,” or something equally catchy. This all means that, by the time the print copy appears, almost all articles in it will already have been published online. Note that, when the article first appears online, its content is fixed—no changes are permitted.

We are now on volume 2, and issue 1 has been published. Volume 2 is devoted to Darwin, since this year is the 200th anniversary of his birth, and also, the 15oth anniversary of The Origin of Species. Issue 2 is in the works. This issue, guest edited by Donald Prothero, will concern transitional fossils. Those that keep up with what’s being published in evolutionary biology will recognize that Dr. Prothero is the author of  Evolution: What the fossils say and why it matters, reviewed in E:E&O last year.

So much for the first blog entry. I will post (or try to post—or try to post—let’s see if this works) some links to other blogs and important sites so everyone can start browsing right away as we wait for the next issue of E:E&O.

Best to all,

Dr. Goldstein