Jack D. Ives, Editor of MRD from 1981–1999, died on 15 September 2024 at the age of 92. His life and work was of immense significance for the world’s mountains and mountain people.
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MRD is available at
- BioOne Complete (all issues back to 2000)
- JSTOR (all issues from 1981)
Online ISSN: 1994-7151 (Print ISSN: 0276-4741)
4 issues per year
International Mountain Society
- Afromontane Research Unit (ARU), University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa
- Andean Initiative, International Potato Center, Lima, Peru
- Beijing Yanshan Earth Critical Zone National Research Station, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China
- Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland
- Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), Lima, Peru
- Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP), Bern, Switzerland
- Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS), United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany and Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (IGF/ÖAW), Innsbruck, Austria
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
- Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Bern, Switzerland
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- BIOSIS Previews (Clarivate Analytics)
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- Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (Elsevier)
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Environment Complete (EBSCO)
- Environment Index (EBSCO)
- GEOBASE (Elsevier)
- Google Scholar
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
- Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)
- Science Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
- SCOPUS (Elsevier)
- Various collections of ProQuest
- Various products of Gale/Cengage Learning
- … and many others
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