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APIACTA History
In its meetings held in Rome, in December 1965, and in Paris, 14-18 February 1966, the Executive Council of APIMONDIA decided the setting up of the APIMONDIA Publishing House and the publishing of the journal APIACTA, as magazine of beekeeping technical and economic information of the Federation.
The editorial staff was appointed and also the staff of editors, necessary for the issuance of the 5 versions of the magazine: English, French, German, Spanish and Russian. The first two issues of APIACTA were brought out in 1966. Since 1967 the journal appears quarterly. The journal is disseminated both by regular subscriptions and by special orders as a part of the exchange of documentation or for promotion of beekeeping all over the world.
The journal includes original articles, speciality articles reprinted from other magazines, brief documentary accounts on the speciality publications drawn up either by the Prague Press Exchange and Documentation Centre of the Federation, or by the editorial staff, apicultural notes, information on the beekeeping activity in the affiliated countries, on world events, and on the activity of APIMONDIA Standing Commissions, and a special section, featuring beekeeping aspects from various countries.
In 1999 at the Congress in Vancouver the Executive Council decided to give up publishing volume of Congress Proceedings and instead to publish the selected Congress papers in APIACTA in the years between two congresses. Therefore APIACTA published in 2002 the selected papers of the APIMONDIA Congress from Durban, South Africa, 2001.
From the beginning, APIACTA was delivered free of charge to the member associations, to authors, to the members of the Standing Commissions of APIMONDIA, to research institutes, libraries, UN institutions and for the exchange of magazines.
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