Beginning January 1, 2010, authors submitting new manuscripts submitted to Ursus should do so at our new (and improved!) manuscript tracking website, http://www.edmgr.com/ursus/. For the past few years, we have used Allentrack software to manage our editorial process. In fall 2009, Allen Press offered Ursus the opportunity to switch to PeerTrack, which we have now customized for Ursus. We think authors, reviewers, and editors will find this new system an improvement. The new system is also likely to be better financially for the IBA.  Authors of manuscripts previously submitted to Ursus through the Allentrack system should continue to use it for those papers.

An index to all Ursus volumes (through volume 17) using ProCite© can now be downloaded from this page.

Beginning with Ursus 15 (calendar year 2004), the full text of each issue of Ursus is available online to subscribers of BioOne. We are proud to join the BioOne family of journals!

Also beginning with volume 15, Ursus is covered by Thomson ISI in their products Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences, and Science Citation Index Expanded.

Full text pdf files now available for Ursus 12-17.

Beginning with Ursus 18, Thomson Scientific evaluates the Impact Factor for Ursus.

Downloadable index now available.

If you have the software ProCite© you can now use our updated index to Ursus, allowing you to search by author, keyword, etc. We will update this index yearly. It is now current through Ursus 16 (year 2005). See the “Ursus index” page.

Subscribers to BioOne now have access to full-text and pdf of all articles beginning with Ursus 15.

Needless to add, Ursus is still a print journal, and is sent directly from our publisher, Allen Press, to full IBA subscribers, twice yearly.

Ursus is now indexed by Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences (and thus in catalogued in the Science Citation Index Expanded, as well as BIOSIS/Biological Abstracts/Zoological Record, and Wildlife Worldwide (NISC).

Ursus is now an "Impact Factor" journal. In 2008, the ISI Impact Factor for Ursus was 0.911 (70th of 125 journals in the ISS “Zoology” database).

Ursus welcomes new Associate Editors Shyamala Ratnayeke of Georgia Gwinnett College, Martyn Obbard of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and William Siemer of Cornell University.