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Novosti pri reviji Acrocephalus
What’s new in Acrocephalus
Novi letnik 24 revije Acrocephalus za~enjamo z nekaj novostmi. Revija
vsebinsko {e vedno ostaja na starih utrjenih temeljih s svojo za~rtano
usmeritvijo, torej objavljanju ornitolo{kih raziskav z obmo~ja JV Evrope in
vzhodnega Sredozemlja. Do sedaj je v enem letniku iz{lo {est {tevilk
Acrocephalusa v {tirih zvezkih, dveh enojnih in dveh dvojnih. Po temeljitem
premisleku in v dogovoru z izdajateljem revije, Dru{tvom za opazovanje in
prou~evanje ptic Slovenije (DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia), ter ob posvetu s ~lani
uredni{kega odbora sem se odlo~il, da obseg revije navidezno skr~imo na {tiri
{tevilke letno. To seveda ne pomeni vsebinskega kr~enja, saj bomo {e vedno
izdali {tiri zvezke na letnik, izognili se bomo le izdajanju dvojnih {tevilk. Delo
pri reviji bo zato la`je in transparentnej{e.
Vsi dosedanji ~lani uredni{kega odbora ostajajo pri reviji tudi naprej, sedanjemu
naboru pa sta se z novim letnikom 24 (2003) pridru`ila {e dva ~lana, dr. Jelena
Kralj (HR) in Toma` Miheli~, univ. dipl. in`. gozd. (SI). Dr. Jelena Kralj je
ornitologinja, zaposlena na Zavodu za ornitologiju v Zagrebu, in z revijo
Acrocephalus uspe{no sodeluje `e ve~ let kot recenzentka. Zadnje ~ase v reviji
objavljamo vse ve~ ~lankov iz Hrva{ke, samo v pri~ujo~i {tevilki dva ~lanka in
pet ornitolo{kih bele`nic, zato bo pomo~ hrva{kih strokovnjakov pri
vrednotenju objav v reviji nujna. Dr. Jelena Kralj se bo v uredni{kem odboru
revije pridru`ila dosedanjima hrva{kima ~lanoma, uglednima kolegoma hrva{ke
ornitologije, prof. dr. Josefu Mikuski in dr. Gordanu Luka~u. Drugi novinec v
uredni{kem odboru je Toma` Miheli~, zaposlen kot koordinator Novega
ornitolo{kega atlasa Slovenije v pisarni Dru{tva za opazovanje in prou~evanje
ptic Slovenije, ki je pri reviji sodeloval ̀ e kot avtor in recenzent. Kot pomembno
pridobitev v uredni{kem odboru ocenjujem Miheli~evo imenovanje tudi zato,
ker smo tako pridobili novega ~lana iz gozdarske stroke, kot vemo, pa ravno
gozdne ptice prihajajo danes v ospredje ornitolo{kih raziskav v Sloveniji. O tem
pri~ajo tudi objave v reviji Acrocephalus.
Eden izmed ciljev razvoja revije Acrocephalus je tudi vstop v razli~ne baze
podatkov, s ~imer se pove~uje odmevnost objavljenih prispevkov v reviji. Tako
se nam je z letom 2003 posre~ilo vstopiti v ameri{ko bazo Raptor Information
System, kjer so evidentirani prispevki s podro~ja biologije ujed in sov. V bazo
so zavedeni vsi ~lanki o raziskavah ujed in sov, objavljeni v reviji Acrocephalus
od leta 2000 dalje.
Z novim letnikom smo revidirali tudi navodila za avtorje, ki so objavljena na
predzadnji strani platnice. Tokrat so navodila v sloven{~ini in angle{~ini, kar bo
v pomo~ tudi tujim avtorjem pri pripravi prispevkov za revijo. Ob tej
prilo`nosti pozivam vse avtorje, da se kar se da dr`ijo teh pravil, saj le ta
olaj{ujejo delo urednika in sodelavcev. Na to marsikdaj avtorje opozorijo tudi
recenzenti. Novost pri pravilih je morda ta, da naj bodo kratke notice odslej
poslani v objavo le v elektronski obliki (na disketi ali po elektronski po{ti na
urednikov naslov), medtem ko prva oddaja ~lanka v objavo ostaja {e vedno v
tiskani obliki v treh izvodih. Pri pripravi prispevkov je lahko avtorjem v veliko
pomo~ tudi pregled zadnjih {tevilk Acrocephalusa.
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Uvodnik / Editorial
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V juniju nas je iz Beograda ob{la `alostna vest, da je v 90. letu starosti preminil
dr. Sergej D. Matvejev, veliki mo` ornitologije na obmo~ju JV Evrope. Dr.
Matvejeva lahko ozna~imo kot naslednika velikega raziskovalca ptic JV Evrope,
dr. Otmarja Reiserja, saj denimo Matvejeve ptice Srbije predstavljajo peti del
Reiserjeve Ornis Balcanice. Dr. Matvejev je bil tudi ~lan uredni{kega odbora
revije Acrocephalus od njegove ustanovitve leta 1980 pa do leta 1995.
Pri~ujo~o {tevilko Acrocephalusa zato posve~amo spominu na `ivljenje in delo
dr. Sergeja D. Matvejeva, katerega `ivljenjska vizija je bila raziskati pti~ji svet
Balkanskega polotoka in JV Evrope, ki nam je mnogim {e danes velik izziv.
Although the new Volume 24 of Acrocephalus will bring certain changes with
it, the journal is to remain on its old and solid foundations with its well traced
out orientation, i.e. publication of ornithological investigations carried out in
SE Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Till now, six numbers - two single
and two double issues - have been published per volume, but upon serious
reflection as well as in agreement with the journal’s publisher, DOPPS –
BirdLife Slovenia, and after a consultation with the members of the Editorial
Board, I have decided to fictitiously reduce the number of the issues from six
to four per year. This, of course, means no reductions as far as the journal’s
contents are concerned, for we shall still publish four numbers annually, but
will merely avoid publication of double issues. The work within the journal
will therefore be easier and no doubt more transparent.
The journal’s Editorial Board will remain the same, except that with Volume
24 (2003) it will be joined by two new members, Dr Jelena Kralj (HR) and
Toma` Miheli~, BSc in Forestry (SI). Dr Kralj is an ornithologist, employed by
the Institute of Ornithology in Zagreb, and has been successfully collaborating
with Acrocephalus for a number of years as a peer reviewer. Lately, our journal
has published more and more articles coming from Croatia – two articles and
five notices From the ornithological notebook in the present number alone –
which is the reason why a help by Croatian experts will be more than desired
in the evaluation of the incoming texts. In our Editorial Board, Dr Jelena Kralj
will join two already well-established Croatian members, reputable colleagues
from the Croatian ornithology, Prof Dr Josef Mikuska and Dr Gordan Luka~.
The other newcomer to the Editorial Board, Toma` Miheli~, has already been
collaborating with the journal as an author and article reviewer and is currently
employed by the BirdLife Slovenia as a coordinator for the new Atlas of
Breeding Birds of Slovenia. With Mr. Miheli~ we have certainly gained an
important member, for he is a forestry expert and, as we all know, forest birds
are coming into the foreground of the ornithological research in Slovenia, as
witnessed by the articles published in our journal. 
One of the objectives as far as the development of Acrocephalus is concerned
is its entry into various databases, through which the articles published in the
journal will meet with a wider response. In 2003, we thus succeeded in
entering the American Raptor Information System, in which contributions
from the biology of birds of prey and owls are kept record of. The base also
refers to all the articles on the research into birds of prey and owls published
in Acrocephalus from 2000 onwards.
With the new volume we have revised the instructions to authors, printed on
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the inside back cover. This time, the instructions will be given in English and
in Slovene, which will be of great assistance to foreign authors during their
preparation of articles for the journal. On this occasion I wish to appeal to all
authors to stick as much as possible to these rules, for in this way they shall
mitigate the work of the editor and his associates. Of this fact, the authors were
in fact often reminded by the reviewers as well. The only thing that is perhaps
new in this respect is that the short notices should be in future sent in
electronic form only (on diskette or by e-mail to the Editor’s address), while
the first submission of an article to be published is to remain in printed form
in three copies. A great help to the authors in their preparation of articles can
also be a good look through the last few numbers of the journal Acrocephalus. 
In June, sad news reached us from Belgrade that Dr Sergej D. Matvejev died
in his 90th year, a great man of ornithology in the SE part of Europe. Dr
Matvejev can be marked as a successor of Dr Otmar Reiser, the great bird
researcher in SE Europe, for the fact is that Matvejev’s Birds of Serbia
constitute the fifth part of Reiser’s Ornis Balcanica. Dr Matvejev, too, was a
member of our journal’s Editorial Board from its founding in 1980 till 1995.
The present number of Acrocephalus is therefore dedicated to the life and
work of Dr Sergej D. Matvejev, whose life vision was to thoroughly research
the bird world of the Balkan Peninsula and Southeastern Europe, which is still
a great challenge to us all.
Al Vrezec 
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