Osmia [1] (ISSN 2727-3806) is a scientific journal published in English and French about Hymenoptera research, launched in 2007. [2] [3] It is published by the Observatoire des Abeilles [Observatory of Bees], a French and Belgian society about knowledge and protection of wild bees. [4] [5] The items are peer-reviewed and available online, in open access, under a free licence CC BY 4.0.
The first volume is published in 2007 with Nicolas Vereecken (today professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles) as first editor-in-chief who manages the journal until 2012. [6] [7] Osmia originally publishes items about Apoidea (bees and spheciforms). One issue is published each year, except in 2011. The journal knows an interruption and, in 2016, a new team led by Benoît Geslin (senior lecturer at Université Aix-Marseille) takes care of the journal . An issue is published each two years (2016, 2018) before taking an annual rhythm from 2020. In 2020, a publication "by item" is adopted and the current website [8] is produced, as well as new indexing tools, giving a better audience to the journal. In 2021, the team takes a decision: to enlarge the scope to all Hymenoptera. [9]
The website of the first editor-in-chief initially hosts the journal. [10] Then the journal is hosted by the publishing society, the Observatoire des Abeilles, on its website. [5] In 2020, a dedicated website [8] is made. All the charges are paid by the society; this allows the journal to be free for the authors as well as the readers. [11]
The journal scrupulously follows the rules and recommendations of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. The descriptions of taxa are then perfectly valid. [12]
The journal is indexed or archived by Crossref , Zoobank , HAL , Zenodo , OpenAIRE , Google Scholar and Web of Science (Clarivate) [ Zoological Record ]. [8]
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