
''Rangifer'' is an
open-access
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scientific journal
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Content
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about northern
ungulate
Ungulates ( ) are members of the diverse clade Ungulata which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves. These include odd-toed ungulates such as horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs; and even-toed ungulates such as cattle, pigs, giraff ...
s and
reindeer husbandry
Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subsp ...
.
''Rangifer'' is published since 1981 by the Nordic Council for Reindeer Husbandry Research.
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accessed 3 March 2011. Paperback ''Rangifer'' was published regularly from 1981 to 2007.
It was published by the Nordic Council for Reindeer Husbandry Research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Management in Uppsala, Sweden.
Special and report issues started at volume 28, 2008.
Since then, it is primarily an
online journal
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.
''Rangifer'' publishes original research papers, review articles, and brief communications in all themes and fields related to
reindeer
Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subsp ...
and reindeer husbandry as culture and industry, including papers on other northern ungulates.
The contents have "mainly been non-peer-reviewed material."
The journal publishes under a
Creative Commons Attribution
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(CC-BY) licence.
The journal is indexed and abstracted in
BIOSIS,
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,
CAB International
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and
AGRIS.
See also
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Open access in Norway
References
External links
* {{Official, http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/rangifer
Nordic Council for Reindeer Husbandry Research
Agricultural journals
Mammalogy journals
Reindeer
Publications established in 1981
English-language journals
Open access journals