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Osmia (ISSN 2727-3806) is a scientific journal published in English and French about Hymenoptera research, born in 2007. It is published by the Observatoire des Abeilles, a French and Belgian society for wild bees knowledge and protection. The items are peer-reviewed and avalaible online, in open access, under a free licence CC BY 4.0.

History
The first volume is published in 2007 with Nicolas Vereecken (today professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles) as first editor-in-chief who runs the journal until 2012. Osmia originally publishes articles about Apoidea (bees and spheciforms). One issue is published each year, except in 2011. The journal knows an interruption and, in 2016, a new team leaded by Benoît Geslin (senior lecturer at Université Aix-Marseille) takes care of the journal. An issue is published each two years (2016, 2018) before taking a annual rythm from 2020. In 2020, a publication "by item" is adopted and the current website is produced, as well as new indexing tools, giving a better audience to the journal. In 2021, the team takes a decision: to enlarge the scope to all Hymenoptera.

Availability
The website of the first editor-in-chief initially hosts the journal .Then the journal is hosted by the publishing society, the Observatoire des Abeilles, on its website. In 2020, a dedicated website is made. All the charges are paid by the society; this allows the journal to be free for the authors as well as the readers.

Validity of taxa descriptions
The journal scrupulously follows the rules and recommendations of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. The descriptions of taxa are then perfectly valid.

Indexing and archiving
The journal is indexed (and sometimes archived) by Crossref, Zoobank, HAL, Zenodo, OpenAIRE, Google Scholar and Web of Science (Clarivate) [Zoological Record].

DOI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47446/OSMIA