Mycotaxon has made an agreement with the authors to offer the following paper on our website to the participants of the “One Fungus = Which Name?” symposium in Amsterdam (April 12–13 2012). The Open Access paper is available here until Mycotaxon 119 is published (shortly) on ingentaconnect.

Gams, Walter; Humber, Richard A.; Jaklitsch, Walter; Kirschner, Roland; Stadler, Marc. 2012. Minimizing the chaos following the loss of Article 59: Suggestions for a discussion. Mycotaxon 119: 495–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.5248/119.495

The January–March volume, Mycotaxon 119, is now completed and will be published shortly. Manuscripts submitted for Mycotaxon 120 (the April–June volume, now closed), will undergo final editorial review beginning April 15. Due to an unusually heavy number of new submissions, nomenclatural review of manuscripts tentatively scheduled for Mycotaxon 121 will require a minimum of three weeks.

It is our sad duty to report that due to continuing decreasing revenues in 2011, Mycotaxon must begin assessing universal page charges for all manuscripts received after 1 April 2012. Fees charged will be $20 per published page, due after authors have received the final PDF proof. [There is no increase in fee for the ‘weblists’ (regional species mycobiotas) posted on the Mycotaxon website.]

Subscriber-authors (those who subscribe to Mycotaxon) will be granted six free pages per year. Two or more subscriber authors may combine their individual six free pages for longer joint manuscripts to offset page charges.

We strongly advise authors who have sufficient funds to pay the additional open access fee of $20 per page, so that their papers will be available for free download to all internet users immediately after publication.

We sincerely regret the need for required page charges but cannot to continue to operate at a deficit.

All authors should proceed to the Instructions to Authors for downloads of an Author Kit. New authors should consult our revised FAQ pages for information on what articles are suitable. MAKE CERTAIN when submitting final MS to Editor to include your assigned MS # in the subject line of your email.


OLDER BUT STILL IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are pleased to announce free access to a downloadable version of Grégoire L. Hennebert's archive, The 100 Years of MUCL 1894-1994, published by Mycotaxon, Ltd. Dick Korf's recent invited talk at the VII Congress of Latin American Mycology is also online, Dreams and Nightmares of Latin American Ascomycete Taxonomists. Dick Korf's reading of Stephen Vincent Benét's epic book length poem, John Brown's Body, originally issued in 2006 as a 12-disc CD audio book, can now be streamed online.

We also remind readers that Mycotaxon, Ltd. has become the North American distributor for an essential reference book, List of fungi recorded in Japan, by Ken Katumoto, 2010. Every library serving a fungal taxonomist should have this on its shelves.

Do remember to view our featured checklists online.