he journal DIVERSITY was published between 1982 and the year 2000. It was an important vehicle for the dissemination of news and information pertaining to the maintenance of genetic diversity within the breeding stocks of various crop plants. Now the William L. Brown Center is making available all back issues of DIVERSITY via the internet. more info

The Wm. L. Brown Center intends to use the Diversity website to publish a series of occasional papers that will be of interest to the plant genetics resources community. The internet is an excellent vehicle for electronic publication of translations of important work, thus making it available to a very broad audience. When the situation demands it, hard copies will be printed. Each publication will be identified as an “Occasional Contribution from Diversity.” Several manuscripts have been proposed for publication in this series. One title under consideration is a translation of a monograph currently available only in Spanish entitled Bioprospecting and Access to Genetic Resources. The proceedings of the NSF-sponsored workshop on “Priorities in Ethnobiology,” organized by Jan Salick and her colleagues, would also be suitable for inclusion. Furthermore, discussions are underway with the World Wildlife Fund about the possibility of posting French translations of titles from their People and Plants series.