People

McNeil, Ann

Job Title Editor, Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
Department ISD
Section Publishing
Science Teams Large-Scale Syntheses
Joined Kew 1985
Foreign Language(s)

French, German (both basic reading)

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons) Leeds Polytechnic (1975)

Role

Management of Kew Record database; production of the Kew Record quarterly journal.

Responsible for the editorial management and production of the Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature as a database and as a quarterly journal published by TSO.  The work involves  selecting and indexing relevant literature, training staff on use of the database and responding to enquiries regarding the database and its use; also liaising with Plant Micromorphology and Economic Botany bibliographic database managers and computer staff regarding changes and improvements to the database structure and searching facilities.

Projects

Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature

Selected Publications 2001-2005

McNeil, A. & Brummitt, R.K. (2003). The usage of alternative names of eight flowering plant families. Taxon 52 (4): 853-856