Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation

Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation  

Former names	Bothalia
Discipline	Botany, Zoology, Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed	yes
Language	English
Edited by	Michelle Hamer, SANBI
Publication details
Publisher	AOSIS (South Africa)
Publication history	1922–present
Frequency	yearly
Open access	yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Impact factor (2015)	0.486
Indexing
ISSN	0006-8241 (print) 2311-9284 (web)
Links
Journal homepage On-line archive

Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation is a South African peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering the fields of botany, zoology and biodiversity, produced by the the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).^[1]

Description

This South African biodiversity journal is produced yearly, but articles are published on-line continually. When the journal was renamed in 2014, as well as broadening the scope it was made open access and its contents made freely available by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. The entire contents back to the first issue are available on the journal's website.^[2]

History

The journal was established in 1921, producing its first issue in 1922, as an in house journal of South Africa's National Botanical Institute (NBI). The journal was formally known by the name Bothalia alone, from 1922 to 2014 when the title was expanded to better reflect the role of SANBI.^[3]

In 2004 the NBI was absorbed into a broader configuration, the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), by the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (NEMBA). The journal was named after the first Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha who was Minister of Agriculture (1910–1913).^[2]

After the new journal was launched a fake website (bthla-journal.org) appeared purporting to be the journal.^[2]

References

Bibliography

2013 cover of Bothalia

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