The first two articles in this year's issue of Icelandic Agricultural Sciences have now been published online.
On the one hand, this is an article by Eyþór Einarsson et al. on the effectiveness of the new electronic method VIAscan®) to evaluate muscle mass of lambs in slaughterhouses in Iceland and how the heritability of muscle ratio is structured in the Icelandic sheep population. The results indicate that electronic meat assessment is a usable method in Icelandic conditions and that the measurements provided by the assessment can be used in breeding work in sheep breeding in Iceland. The authors came from the Agricultural University of Iceland, the Farmers' Association and an Australian research and development company.
However, this is an article by Jan Eric Jenssen et al. um capacity of Paenibacillus strain, which has been isolated from Icelandic hot springs, to produce ethanol and other substrates from sugars or directly from foxgrass. The ethanol production of the stock corresponded to 250 liters per tonne of foxgrass, which is similar to various recent studies that show that the biomass of wheat straw, which is a by-product of cereal cultivation abroad that is interested in being used in ethanol production, can be processed. The authors came from the University of Akureyri and the Agricultural University of Iceland.
It's a newcomer to articles in Icel. Agric. Sci. will be formally published electronically as soon as they have been reviewed professionally. The change, however, has been that all articles now receive a so-called electronic doi number from the international database CrossRef, which means that they are formally published as soon as they are published on the Internet. This is a major milestone for the publication and will further increase its visibility internationally and at the same time facilitate access by foreign and domestic scholars to it.
This means that it is now unnecessary to print copies of the publication so that articles are formally published. As a result, the time it takes for authors to submit manuscripts for publication until they are formally published will be significantly shortened. Soon we will be posting changes to the author's guide on the publication's website (www.ias.is) that take this into account. As of this year, the publication will therefore only be published in electronic form.
More information can be found at www.ias.is.