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 Conchologist 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