Dear ConchL'ers,

Yesterday its Senior Editor, Bruce Neville, announced the completed 
production of the all-inclusive /COA Publication Index/, and today 
Website Liaison Officer Karlynn Morgan has seen to its placement on the 
COA website. This pdf references all issues of the /Conchologists of 
America Bulletin/ and /American Conchologist/ (1974 through 2019; no. 1 
- volume 47) plus supplements & special publications. There are no less 
than 260 pages, and every entry is searchable. For instance, there are 
some 300 entries for R. Tucker Abbott and nearly 100 for the Pink Conch 
(now /Aliger gigas/) in its various binominal iterations.

For the last several months the document was split into chronological 
segments, but now each entry is merged into one of four subindices: 
molluscan taxa; people and clubs, geography, and general topics (i.e., 
everything else).

Although newer COA members may have limited numbers of hard-copies of 
the journal, the September, 2004 through June, 2018 issues of (the 
quarterly) /American Conchologis/t have been posted by its 
Editor-in-Chief, Tom Eichhorst at 
<https://conchologistsofamerica.org/publications/> & 
<http://conchologistsofamerica.org/publications/past-magazine-issues-back-to-2004/>. 
Also, some 50 articles, mostly from the late 1990's can be found at 
<https://conchologistsofamerica.org/american-conchologist-library/>......

*However*, the icing on the cake of global accessibility will will be 
applied when the entire run of our publications is made available 
on-line through the offices of the Biodiversity Heritage Library 
<https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/>. Officials of this prodigious 
enterprise have agreed to collaborate with Tom to accomplish just this.

Harry G. Lee
President, COA

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