Bee Culture or American Bee Journal

[keqwow]

Which one do you like more and why? Which one typically has more scientific articles as opposed to more practical beekeeping articles? What is your preference?? smile.gif

[power napper]

That is sort of similar to asking "which lick of the ice cream is the best".I would suggest getting both subscriptions and making the decision. ;)

[Keith Benson]

I agree, they are different. I really wouldn't call eithero of them rigerous scientific journals, regardless of their title.

They are pretty cheap, get 'em both.

Keith

[magnet-man]

American Bee Journal tends to have the more technical articles. I subscribe to both and enjoy ABJ more.

[peggjam]

I enjoy ABJ also, but I read BC online when I get time. You can't read the current articles, but you can the older ones.

[Sundance]

It's a tough call...... if I had to only
have one it would probably be ABJ. But if
you asked me in a week I might say Bee Culture.

Get em' both. Splurge........

[keqwow]

I will end up getting them both...just figured I'd see what you folks had to say. Actually, for research purposes the magazine I'd really love to have a subscription to is Apidologie
http://www.beekeeping.com/apidologie/apidologie_us.htm

But it is like $600 a year for a subscription....I think I'll just read through the issues the college gets smile.gif

[BULLSEYE BILL]

I bet Ruth (Prickly Pear) would give you her old copies of Apidologie. :D

A truly ridgid and "Straight Thinking" mind like hers probably absorbs it by osmosis.

[Hillside]

So, Bill, did we decide to throw our line in the water and see what bites?

[Sundance]

Is that the "dance" gal???

[Dick Allen]

>the magazine I'd really love to have a subscription to is Apidologie

You can sign up for email notices when new articles are published which will allow you to read the abstracts for free. Sometimes that’s sufficient anyway. After, I think, 2-3 years the articles are available to read for free, so earlier ones can be downloaded and read at no cost.

http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/index.cfm?edpsname=apido&niv1=inquiries&niv2=email_alert

[Bob Harrison]

If you are interested in beekeeping and an avid reader I would subscribe to both.

Both are excellent in my opinion and both will keep you updated on the fast changing world of beekeeping.

KGbenson:
I am not saying I was directly responsible for the laxing of publication rules by both magazines but have advised both the editors *in my opinion* beekeepers would like to hear about observations about methods not approved such as essential oils, OA and FGMO to name a few.


Dee Lusby was perhaps the first commercial beekeeper to get her methods published but NOT without peer review and edit.

Today her article would fly through without peer review or edit in my opinion.

Both Joe Graham & Kim Flottum have seen the need to give beekeepers what they ask for. Smart move!

We need to support these magazines. Very few places have got two world renoun beekeeping magazines!

What if beekeepers quit subscribing and we had no U.S. beekeeping magazines?

I read both magazines cover to cover but not an easy task considering my busy life.

I read in the bee yard, while eating lunch, filling drums or before I turn in at night to unwind.

I read old issues of both in the off season (which seems to get shorter and shorter each year)

Several commercial beekeeper friends only read after the seasons end. One year Horace Bell (Florida ) said he had all 12 issues of both magazines unopened in his office!

Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Has done about an equal number of articles for both ABJ & BC.

[Michael Bush]

>Bee Culture or American Bee Journal

Yes.