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A scene from Eyjafjöll, S-Iceland. Photo BDS
What's New
May 06, 2012. Altoghether IAS has now got 10 submitted manuscripts intended for publication in the next issue (Vol. 25; 2012). Of those five manuscripts are now in press, but the reminder is still in the reviewing process.
January 02, 2012. The editor has set the deadline for new submissions for the Vol 25 (2012) to March 15, 2012.
Do YOU have an interesting manuscript that you would like to publish in IAS?
November 9, 2011. Free pdf-reprints of all articles in Volume 24 (2011) of Icel. Agric. Sci. can be retrived from our home-page. Go to "Contents" to find them and all articles published in the journal since 1988 in a pdf-format - or click on THIS short-cut.
October 15, 2011. Volume 24 (2011) of Icel. Agric. Sci. was published today in a printed form. Subscribers can expect to receive the journal my mail shortly.
September 27, 2011. Altoghether the IAS got 12 submitted manuscripts intended for publication in the next issue (Vol. 24; 2011). Of those six manuscripts are now in press. The acceptance ratio was therefore 50% in 2011.
September 25, 2011. All articles in the next volume (Vol 24; 2011) are now in press. As soon that they have come through the peer-reviewing process they will appear here on the main-page in a pdf format. They will be in their final form and bear the correct page numbers of the printed issue, so they can be referred to as ordinary printed articles. When the issue has been printed they will all be transferred to the content-page. The printed issue is due later this autumn and will be sent out to our subscribers as before.
April 10, 2011. New editorial board for IAS. Six new editorial board members have been appointed.
Dr. Bjarni Kristófer Kristjánsson - Univ. College Hólaskóli
Dr. Edda S. Oddsdóttir - Icel. For. Res.
Dr. Guðmundur Halldórsson - Soil Conserv. Service of Iceland
Dr. Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir - Icel. Food Biotech R&D Inst.
Dr. Jón S. Ólafsson - Inst. Freshwater Fisheries
Dr. Ólöf Sigurðardóttir - Inst. Exp. Pathol., Univ. Iceland
Dr. Ægir Þór Þórsson - The Farmers Association of Iceland
The role of the new editorial board will be to be both practical and scientific advocates for the journal in Iceland and abroad and to help with developing the publication's editoral policy and standards.
March 14, 2011. New editor for IAS! At today's editorial meeting prof. Throsteinn Gudmundsson formally started as an editor-in-chief for IAS. The editorial board wants to use the opportunity to welcome him and also thank prof. Bjarni E. Gudleifsson for a very good cooperation during the past six years and it is good to know that he will still be involved with the editorial work for the next year. Bjarni is now approaching his emeritus time and decided to hand over the editorial task before he retired so he could share his experience with the new editor.
January 28, 2011. Today all articles published in Vol 23 (2010) appeared in the ISI's Science Citation Index Expanded database.
August 1, 2010. Accepted articles in IAS will now be published on-line as soon as they have been made print-ready. Articles that have been accepted in Volume 23 will therefore be made available here in pdf format as they come through the peer-reviewing process. They will be in their final form and bear the correct page numbers of the printed issue, so they can be referred to as ordinary printed articles. The articles will first appear here on the main-page and when the issue has been printed they will all be transferred to the content-page. The printed issue is due later this autumn and will be sent out to our subscribers as before.
March 25, 2010. MATÍS - Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D (Matís) has formally joint the publishing consortium of IAS. MATÍS is the eigth institute or university, but others are the Agricultural University of Iceland (Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands), the Hólar University College (Háskólinn á Hólum), the Icelandic Forest Research (Rannsóknastöð skógræktar, Mógilsá), the Institute of Freshwater Fisheries (Veiðimálastofnun), the Institute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland (Keldur, Tilraunastöð Háskóla Íslands í meinafræði), the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (Landgræðsla ríkisins) and the Farmers´ Association of Iceland (Bændasamtök Íslands)
January 20, 2010. Big news!!! After an application process that took four years, IAS has now been accepted into Science Citation Index Expanded database! Now it is listed as ISI journal and all articles published in Vol 22 (2009) and later will be listed in the ISI Web of Knowledge, etc. IAS is the third Icelandic journal to succeed this. The others are Læknablaðið and Jökull which both got access to ISI in 2008.
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