Miscellanea Speologica Romanica Institutul de Speologie „Emil Racoviță"
Periodic series on speleology and karstology — a complementary publication dedicated to Romanian and international speleological research, since 1989
About the publication
Miscellanea Speologica Romanica is a periodic scientific publication (series/serial) edited by the Institute of Speleology "Emil Racoviță" in Bucharest, first published in 1989.
Initially conceived as a supplement or complementary series, the publication hosts scientific articles, speleological studies, taxonomic listings, field reports and bibliographic contributions.
Unlike TAK, it has a more flexible format, publishing volumes or series of papers on diverse topics, without strictly annual issues.
Contents of the publication
Descriptions of karst or cavernicolous species, including arachnids and pseudoscorpions from Romanian caves.
Research on cavernicolous fauna and the biodiversity of subterranean ecosystems.
Original speleological results from expeditions and field research in karst environments.
Scientific reviews and bibliographic studies on speleological and karstological literature.
Structure and context
The publication began in 1989 as a series related to other works of the Institute — Travaux de l'Institut de Spéologie and Theoretical and Applied Karstology — offering a more flexible editorial space for interdisciplinary topics.
Some volumes or articles are catalogued in university libraries or international periodical databases, though not all are freely available online.
Some important biological discoveries — such as the description of cavernicolous arachnid species (araneids and pseudoscorpions from Romania) — were published in Miscellanea Speologica Romanica 1 in 1989, and have since been cited by taxonomists worldwide.
Scientific role
It has served as a dissemination platform for Romanian and international speleological research, complementing the more formal journals in the field.
It has provided editorial space for interdisciplinary topics: geology, biology, karst hydrology, taxonomy — particularly in the context of Romanian karst studies.
The flexible format of the series has allowed the publication of special thematic volumes, reports and contributions that did not fit within the rigid formats of annual journals.
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