About this Journal

Archives of Natural History (formerly the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History) publishes peer-reviewed papers on the history and bibliography of natural history in its broadest sense, and in all periods and all cultures. This is taken to include botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology and zoology, the lives of naturalists, their publications, correspondence and collections, and the institutions and societies to which they belong. Bibliographical papers concerned with the study of rare books, manuscripts and illustrative material, and analytical and enumerative bibliographies are also published.

Archives of Natural History is published by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Natural History.

Web of ScienceThe journal is indexed in the Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index) and has an impact factor of 0.316 (2018)

Editors and Editorial Board

Please visit the Society for the History of Natural History website for full contact details at www.shnh.org.uk

Editors

Editor: Dr Anne Secord

Associate Editors: Dr Elaine Charwat, Ms Stephanie Holt, Dr E. Charles Nelson †, Ms Elaine Shaughnessy, Mr Nathan Smith and Mr Ingvar Svanberg

Book Reviews Editor: Maggie Reilly

Advisory Board

Professor Kraig Adler
Dr Paul D. Brinkman
Dr Clemency T. Fisher
Professor Matthias Glaubrecht
Professor Sachiko Kusukawa
Professor H. Walter Lack
Professor Arthur M. Lucas
Dr Robert McCracken Peck
Dr Pat Morris
Professor Harriet Ritvo
Professor Anna Marie Roos
Dr Geoffrey N. Swinney
Professor Hugh S. Torrens
Dr John van Wyhe
Dr Ray Williams

Councillors of the Society for the History of Natural History

Mr Jack D. Ashby (President)
Mr Bill Noblett (Vice President and Treasurer)

Professor Helen Cowie (Awards and Grants Secretary)
Dr Elle Larsson (Meetings Secretary)
Ms Rachel Jennings (Social Media, Communications and Promotions Secretary)
Dr Malgosia Nowak-Kemp (International Representatives Secretary)
Ms Maggie Reilly (Book Reviews Editor)
Ms Jeanne Robinson (Membership Secretary)
Dr Anne Secord (Editor)
Ms Elaine Shaughnessy (Newsletter Editor/ Website Secretary)
Mr Will Beharrell (Secretary)

Mr Jan Freedman
Dr Geraldine Reid
Dr Stanislav Strekopytov

International Representatives

Central Europe: Prof. Mag. Dr. Christa Riedl-Dorn, Archiv und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Vienna, Austria
Ireland: Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Dublin
Italy: Dr Carlo Giovanni Violani, Milan
North America: Ms Leslie K. Overstreet, Washington DC
Poland: Professor Alicja Zemianek, Kraków
Spain: Dr Margarita Hernández Laille, Madrid
South America: Sergio Zagier, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Society

The Society for the History of Natural History is the only international society devoted to the history of botany, zoology and geology, in the broadest sense, including natural history collections, exploration, art and bibliography. Everyone with an interest in these subjects – professional or amateur – is welcome to join.

Edinburgh University Press administers membership of the Society on behalf of the Society for the History of Natural History. Please see the subscribe page for the journal for further information about becoming a member of the Society.

Visit www.shnh.org.uk for further information about the Society for the History of Natural History.

The Society newsletter can be accessed here: https://shnh.org.uk/publications/newsletter/

Endorsements

'This was the first professional society I ever joined and since then has always been special in my life. Anyone who loves the history of natural history will find a warm welcome, like I did. The variety of meetings and articles is great!'

Professor Janet Browne, Department for the History of Science, Harvard University, USA

'I am not aware of any other periodical concerned with the history of natural history that consistently maintains such a high standard of scholarship.'

R.G.C. Desmond, formerly Chief Librarian and Archivist, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and Deputy Keeper of the India Office Library

'I, for one, cannot imagine what life would have been like these past fifty years without its conferences and other meetings, its newsletter and, above all, Archives of natural history.'

Dr David E. Allen, author of The Naturalist in Britain

Indexing

Archives of Natural History is abstracted and indexed in the following:

  • Academic Search Alumni Edition
  • Academic Search Complete
  • Academic Search Elite
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Academic Search Ultimate
  • Africa-Wide: NiPAD (National Inquiry Services Centre)
  • ANVUR
  • ArticleFirst
  • Australian Research Council ERA 2012 Journal List
  • Biological Science Collection (ProQuest)
  • Biological Science Index (ProQuest)
  • Biomedical Reference Collection: Corporate 
  • Biotechnology Research Abstracts (ProQuest)
  • British Library Zetoc
  • BrowZine
  • CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
  • cnpLINKer
  • Current Contents®/Arts & Humanities
  • Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • EBSCO A-to-Z
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • EBSCO Historical Abstracts
  • Engineering Abstracts (ProQuest)
  • Engineering Collection (ProQuest)
  • Environment Complete
  • Environment Index
  • Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)
  • European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH PLUS)
  • Genamics JournalSeek
  • History Reference Center Plus
  • IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
  • Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science
  • J-Gate
  • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
  • Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
  • JournalTOCs
  • Natural Science Collection (ProQuest)
  • Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
  • Publication Forum (JuFo)
  • ReadCube Discover
  • Researcher
  • Science Reference Center Plus
  • Scilit
  • SCImago Journal Ranking
  • SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
  • Scopus
  • STM Source
  • Summon
  • TDNet
  • Technology Collection (ProQuest)
  • TOC Premier
  • Water Resources Abstracts (ProQuest)
  • Web of Science/Arts and Humanities Citation Index®
  • Web of Science/Science Citation Index Expanded®
  • Web of Science/Social Science Citation Index®
  • Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
  • WorldCat Discovery
  • Zoological Record

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