International Journal of Speleology

International Journal of Speleology

http://www.ijs.speleo.it/

Publisher: International Union of Speleology

When it was founded, the International Journal of Speleology was divided
into four sections: Botany-Microbiology, Zoology, Geology-Geomorphology and
Abstract-News. After the first issue edited by G. Claus (USA) other two
editors added: R. Husson (France) and G Nicholas (USA). Verlag von J. Kramer
(Germany) printed the first two volumes; successively Swets & ZEITLINGER
N.V. (The Netherlands) published it.

Since 1972 R. Husson became Editor-in -chief with Br. G. Nicholas as Book &
News Editor and nine volumes were issued in the period 1964 to 1977 when the
very high cost of printing requested a radical change.

In 1978 the IJS became the official journal of the Union International de
Spéléologie and it was published in Italy where the printing cost was
cheaper. R. Husson (Biospeleology), A.A. Cigna (Physical Speleology) and Br.
G. Nicholas (Book & News) composed the Editorial Board.

In 1981 V. Sbordoni (Italy) became Editor-in-chief of the same Editorial
Board which later included also F.Cucchi (Italy). In the meantime the
Società Speleologica Italiana acquired the property of the journal which was
printed with a contribution of the Italian Ministry for Culture and
Environment, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and the University of
Trieste.

In the second half of the '90s also the Museo di Speleologia "V. Rivera"
contributed to the financial support of the journal and E. Burri (Italy)
succeeded to F. Cucchi as editor for physical speleology. The issues of the
journal were alternatively dedicated to biospeleology and physical
speleology until 1998 when it was agreed upon to split the journal into two
different series: "A" for Biospeleology and "B" for Physical Speleology.

In addition to the regular issues of the journal, in 1996 a "Manual for
karst water analysis" by W.E. Krawczyk was printed. Other handbook
concerning special arguments will be published in the future.

Since 2003 the Biospeleological Section of the Journal is no longer
published according a preference expressed by the people interested to this
matter. Nevertheless the Journal is always open to any contribution
concerning speleology at large, biology included.

Papers should be written preferably in English. Other allowed languages are
French, German, Italian and Spanish.

ISSN 0392-6672

Editor-in-Chief:

Jo De Waele
Department of Geology
University of Cagliari
Via Trentino 51
09127 CAGLIARI (Italy)

Ph.: +39 070 675 77 78
Fax: +39 070 28 22 36
Email: geoam@unica.it

International Journal of Speleology is available free of charge as an Open
Access journal on the Internet.

Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format.

Current Issue: Volume 34 (1/2) - Year 2005

Date: 6 October 2005