Editorial

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Stone, Ian R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2012
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247412000332; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247412000332

Attentive readers of Polar Record will have noticed that, since the issue for October 2011 (Volume 47 Issue 4), no book reviews have appeared in the journal's issues. The reason for this is simply that not only has the journal been receiving a large number of high-quality submissions in the form of articles and notes but it has also published two special themed issues in the last few months. This meant there was simply no space for book reviews and obituaries taking into consideration the space limitations of the hard copy issues. This problem is alleviated somewhat by the fact that all contributions are published online in FirstView ( http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=POL ) before appearing in an issue, and book reviews and obituaries published in Polar Record have been free to view online since 2010. Furthermore contributions published in FirstView may be cited in exactly the same manner as contributions published in an issue, but using the doi number rather than volume and page numbers. To rationalise the situation, it has been decided that articles and notes will continue to appear in hard copy, albeit at some remove from their publication in FirstView , while book reviews, obituaries, etc will only appear in the online version of the issue.