The Orchidstudium - International Journal of Orchid Study have occasional periodicity so wil be distributed as soon as material for a new issue is ready for publication.

The electronic online version has exactly the same content and formatting of the printed version. Both versions will be published/distributed together, at the same day.

To validate taxonomic publications according International Code of Botanical Nomenclature - Vienna Code (2006) Div. II, Chaper IV, Sect. 1, Article 29* the printed copies will be mailed free of charge to major biodiversity related institutions in the world at the day of publication/distribution which appears on the first page of each article below author's name.

* International Code of Botanical Nomenclature - Vienna Code (2006)

DIVISION II.  RULES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER IV. EFFECTIVE AND VALID PUBLICATION
SECTION 1. CONDITIONS AND DATES OF EFFECTIVE PUBLICATION
Article 29

29.1. Publication is effected, under this Code, only by distribution of printed matter (through sale, exchange, or gift) to the general public or at least to botanical institutions with libraries accessible to botanists generally. It is not effected by communication of new names at a public meeting, by the placing of names in collections or gardens open to the public, by the issue of microfilm made from manuscripts, typescripts or other unpublished material, or solely by distribution electronically or through any electronic medium.

Ex. 1. Cusson announced his establishment of the genus Physospermum in a memoir read at the Société des Sciences de Montpellier in 1770, and later in 1782 or 1783 at the Société de Médecine de Paris, but its effective publication dates from 1787 (in Hist. Soc. Roy. Méd. 5(1): 279).

Recommendation 29 A

29A.1. Publication of nomenclatural novelties in periodicals (see Rec. 30A.2) that distribute an electronic version as well as a printed version, should only be in those with the following features:

   1. The printed and electronic versions are identical in content and pagination;
   2. The electronic version is in a platform-independent and printable format;
   3. The electronic version is publicly available via the World Wide Web or its successors;
   4. The presence of nomenclatural novelties is prominently indicated in the work (see Rec. 30A.2).