LABORATORY PRIMATE NEWSLETTER

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POLICY STATEMENT

The Laboratory Primate Newsletter provides a central source of information about nonhuman primates and related matters to scientists who use these animals in their research and those whose work supports such research. Students and interested laypersons are invited to read the Newsletter on the WorldWideWeb, or by subscribing to LPN-L (see information below), or at a library. The Newsletter
  1. provides information on care and breeding of nonhuman primates for laboratory research,
  2. disseminates general information and news about the world of primate research (such as announcements of meetings, research projects, sources of information, nomenclature changes),
  3. helps meet the special research needs of individual investigators by publishing requests for research material or for information related to specific research problems, and
  4. serves the cause of conservation of nonhuman primates by publishing information on that topic.
As a rule, research articles or summaries accepted for the Newsletter have some practical implications or provide general information likely to be of interest to investigators in a variety of areas of primate research. However, special consideration will be given to articles containing data on primates not conveniently publishable elsewhere. General descriptions of current research projects on primates will also be welcome.

The Newsletter appears quarterly and is intended primarily for persons doing research with nonhuman primates. Back issues may be purchased for $10.00 each. We are no longer printing paper issues, except those we will send to subscribers who have paid in advance. We will not accept future subscriptions, unless subscribers are willing to pay $100/year. (Please make checks payable to the Brown University Psychology Department.) Readers with access to electronic mail may receive the nongraphic contents of each issue by sending the message subscribe LPN-L your-own-name to listserv@listserv.brown.edu. (Send the message subscribe LPN-PDF to receive PDF files by e-mail; or the message subscribe LPN-WARN your-own-name, to receive a notice when a new issue has been put on the Website). Current and back issues of the Newsletter are available on the World Wide Web at <http://www.brown.edu/primate>. Persons who have absolutely no access to the Web, or to the electronic mailing, may ask to have paper copies sent to them.

The publication lag is typically no longer than the three months between issues and can be as short as a few weeks. The deadline for inclusion of a note or article in any given issue of the Newsletter has in practice been somewhat flexible, but is technically the tenth of December, March, June, or September, depending on which issue is scheduled to appear next. Reprints will not be supplied under any circumstances, but authors may reproduce their own articles in any quantity.

PREPARATION OF ARTICLES FOR THE NEWSLETTER. -- Articles, notes, and announcements may be submitted by mail, e-mail, or computer disk, but a printed copy of manuscripts of any length or complexity should also be sent by regular mail. Articles in the References section should be referred to in the text by author(s) and date of publication, as for example: Smith (1960) or (Smith & Jones, 1962). Names of journals should be spelled out completely in the References section. Latin names of primates should be indicated at least once in each note and article. In general, to avoid inconsistencies within the Newsletter, the Latin names used will be those in Mammal Species of The World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd Ed. D. E. Wilson & D. M. Reeder (Eds.). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. For an introduction to and review of primate nomenclature see The Pcitorial Guide to the Living Primates, by N. Rowe, Pogonias Press, 1996.

All correspondence concerning the Newsletter should be addressed to:

Judith E. Schrier, Psychology Department, Box 1853,
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.

Phone: 401-863-2511
FAX: 401-863-1300

e-mail address: Judith_Schrier@brown.edu

Current and back issues of the Newsletter are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.brown.edu/primate

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Newsletter is supported by Brown University.

Cover photograph of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), taken at the San Diego Zoo by Paul Wilde, 1997

Laboratory Primate Newsletter copyright © 2009 by Brown University

Editor: Judith E. Schrier, MSc
Associate Editors: James S. Harper, DVM, Gordon J. Hankinson, DVM, and Larry Hulsebos, DVM
Consulting Editors: Morris L. Povar, DVM and and Jason Machan, PhD
Assistant Editor: Elva Mathiesen, BA
Founding Editor: Allan M. Schrier, PhD

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Last updated: December 31, 2008