doi:10.3114/sim.2007.57.02 EDITORIAL AND REFLECTION The mycological journal Studies in Mycology (SiM)

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarc*
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Johann Adolf von Arx in September 1972 and has evolved from a publication with taxonomic monographs with irregular appearance to a professional journal. Deviating from the practice of previous years when the Studies in Mycology (SiM) appeared once a year, the editorial board decided in 2005 that: ► SiM would in future publish three issues per year; ► SiM would only accept papers that deal with fungal cultures, and/or fungal DNA, which should be deposited at CBS to be optimally accessible to the scientific community; ► SiM would publish papers by invitation or if a volume or special topic was supported by one of its associate editors; ► SiM would move to a print-on-demand system that allows to incorporate full colour throughout the journal at reasonable costs, making SiM the first mycological journal to do so; ► SiM would be effectively linked to MycoBank (www.MycoBank.org), which facilitates the incorporation of additional data and illustrations that are not printed in the journal itself. This policy has resulted in the publication of an issue focusing on Antarctic fungi and evolution under extreme conditions (De Hoog et al. 2005, Selbmann et al. 2005), an issue focusing on the phylogeny and morphology of Cytospora species and related teleomorphs (Adams et al. 2005), and a third issue focusing on the missing lineages, namely the taxonomy and ecology of sterile endophytic root-associated fungi (Hambleton & Sigler