JOURNAL            OF            CULTURE           COLLECTIONS

        JOURNAL OF CULTURE COLLECTIONS  publishes research papers with original results in the field of collection and preservation of microbial and cell cultures and viruses. Different aspects of these topics will be interesting: taxonomic, biochemical and molecular biological investigations. Manuscripts of Bulgarian and foreign collections including subcollections of different scientific institutions are preferred.

        The publisher of the Journal of Culture Collections is the National Bank for Industrial Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (NBIMCC), Sofia.
        Founded in 1983 by the Government of Republic of Bulgaria, NBIMCC is juristically independent research institute, financed by the state budget. NBIMCC is a member of the World Federation of Culture Collections and European Culture Collections Organization, recognized by the World Intellectual Property Organization as Independent Depository Institute, authorized to accept and safe-keep microbial specimens for the purposes of patent procedures. Objects of collecting are bacteria and actinomycetes, fungi, plasmid-bearing microorganisms, animal viruses and cell lines, plant viruses. By the end of 1998 the specimens preserved were more than 3500 strains.
        NBIMCC has been publishing a bulletin in Bulgarian (20 issues), which included research papers and information about the strains deposited for preservation, for 10 years. A catalogue is also published by the NBIMCC.
        Collecting activity is a specific and narrow scientific area. Hundreds of collections world-wide deal with similar scientific problems and publish in different journals. This fact makes difficulties in gathering data about the collection, the conservation and the preservation of microbiological objects. The accumulated statistic information connected with different criteria which were followed during the long-term conservation of the specimens is of great importance for this kind of investigations. These data are useful for the specialized research groups, but of limited interest for publication in series of scientific journals. It is possible that optimal decisions regarding a certain problem have been already found and meanwhile other collections to continue working on them. In our opinion a possible alternative is to combine scientific information of similar kind in a journal of Culture Collections which will include research, research-applied materials, as well as papers of practical importance. Their value could be evaluated namely by the narrow specialists in collecting and preserving.
        The NBIMCC researchers have decided that it is worth to try to publish such a journal. Several papers of the NBIMCC staff have been published in the first  issues. We hope that the specific thematic attracts authors working in other collections. It would give us a great pleasure if the readers give their comments and send to us research papers for publication in next issues.

        All manuscripts submitted for publication are reviewed by a suitable member of the Editorial Board or by other referees. The materials may be send back to the author for modification if necessary. After publication each author receives an offprint.
 
 

        All manuscripts should be submitted to the following address:
            Dr. Angela Yordanova, Editor
            Journal of Culture Collections
            125 Tsarigradsko shausse blvd., bl. 2
            P.O. Box 239
            1113 Sofia
            BULGARIA
            phone: +359 2 725 865
            e-mail: nbimcc@olb.net, nbimcc@cablebg.net or nbimcc@hotmail.com

         JOURNAL OF CULTURE COLLECTIONS  will be published periodically depending on the number of the submitted materials. Because of the restricted journal circulation and its dissemination free of charge, offprints may be ordered on the same address.

Editor in Chief  TODOR DONEV
Editor  ANGELA YORDANOVA
Technical Editors  MARIA HRISTOVA and TSONKA UZUNOVA

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        1. Two clean copies of each manuscript written in English only and typed on A4 paper, double-spaced should be submitted.
        2. Title in capital letters should be clear and concise. Full author(s) names (including first name and family name) should be written and the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed should be indicated by asterisk, followed by the address of the appropriate institution(s).
        3. Manuscripts should include a summary (not larger than 200 words) in English and Bulgarian (for Bulgarian authors only), introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, literature cited. It is preferable to present "Materials and Methods" with subtitles. "Results and Discussion" may be combined or not in order to obtain better interpretation of the experimental data. Reviews are also published by the Journal of Culture Collections.
        4. Tables should be explanatory enough, but as simple as possible. They should be typed double-spaced and presented on a separate sheet of paper.
        5. Figures (graphs, photographs, etc.,) should be numbered consequently and presented on a separate sheet of paper. Graphs may be drawn in black ink or computer-made. It is desirable for the graphs to be accompanied by tables with the data used for their preparation to
facilitate the presentation of the graphs for publication. Photographs should be clear enough and have good contrast. Legends to the figures should be grouped on a separate sheet of paper.
        6. Latin binominals should be typed in italic and in full when first cited, and further with abbreviated first name.
        7. All abbreviations not regularly accepted should be explained when first used in the text. It is not necessary for the abbreviations cited in the summary to be explained again in the text.
        8. Units should be in accordance with the International Measurement System (SI).
        9. References should be arranged in alphabetical order. Literature cited in the text should be by numerals in square brackets. References should be arranged as follow:
                a. Articles from journals:
        Baker, A.M., D.E. Drapers, 1995. J. Biol. Chem., 270 (39), 22939 - 22945.
                b. Articles from contributor-type books:
        Goodfellow, M., T. Cross, 1984. Classification. In: Biology of the actinomycetes,
        M. Goodfellow, M. Mordarski and S. T. Williams (eds), London: Acad. Press, 7-164.
                c. Books:
        Lewin, B., 1987. Genes, sev. edn., New York: John Wiley & Sons.
                d. Articles from scientific meetings:
        Zorenzana, Z.M., E. Beates, M.Z. Zopez, 1992. 6th International Symposium on
        Microbiology and Ecology, 6-11 Sept., Barcelona, Spain, abstracts, 224.
        10. Manuscripts should be submitted on diskette also. It is preferable to prepare the materials on MS Windows using program's Word, Excel, Paintbrush, Corel Draw or *.html format, or as text file in ASCI format. The diskettes should be clearly labelled with the authors name and the software used.