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EURORAD
The idea to build a EAR teaching database was originally launched in 1995 by Prof. J. Struyven (ULB, Belgium). The aim was to implement a search tool for radiological documents already published on the Internet. The Internet Resource Locator of the EAR was presented at the ECR'97 and was intended as a service to assist with the location and display of cases, educational material and works-in-progress produced by European radiologists. For further information please visit the EURORAD website at www.eurorad.org EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY The Journal “ European Radiology “ official organ of the ECR, EAR and of most of the European Societies of radiological subdisciplines continues its successful growth and development. Subscription remains stable on a very high level and the journal enjoys the third highest circulation in the world of international journals devoted to radiological imaging.Particular efforts are made by the publisher, Springer Verlag to ensure punctual delivery of single issues within the first days of every month. During the past year again more than 400 manuscripts were published from a total of more than 950 received .Although the majority of authors is European, Asian and American contributions are increasing steadily. Implementing the editorial policy decided two years ago, the number of published case reports has been further reduced in favor of more original research articles and revieuw type papers .The editors continue their efforts in order to further shorten the duration of the peer revieuwing procedure and of the publication time interval following accceptance of the manuscript. On line electronic publication of manuscripts is now achieved within two months following acceptance, a feature which is highly appreciated by both authors and those involved in research . Since April 2004 all manuscripts of “European Radiology “ from submittal, through peer revieuw to acceptance for publication have been processed exclusively electronic and on line. This operational change has enabled the editorial office to substantially reduce paperwork and surface mail, resulting in substantial financial savings .But also from the scientific point of vieuw the mutation to full electronic proceedings has proven to be beneficial in reducing further the time needed for the revieuwing process and for publishing and in general to intensify and to improve our working relations with authors and peer revieuwers. The impact factor as determined by the ISI increased again and stands now at 1.979 for the year 2003. “European Radiology” is also the top European forum to publish scientific material from the ECR and the affiliated European societies of radiological disciplines as well as to report on the activities of the EAR for promoting the discipline and organised radiology at the European level I take this opportunity to express my most sincere appreciation for the enthousiastic support from my two deputy editors: A.Dixon and T.Vogl, the members of the advisory and Editorial Board and helpful suggestions to improve the scientific standing of our Journal. Moreover i would like to acknowledge the excellent contributions by the numerous European, American as and Asian scientists, who kindly acted as peer revieuwers of the submitted manuscripts. I am also grateful for the continuing support of th members of the executive Committee of the ECR. Last but not least, let me call your attention to the fact that ECR membership fee includes a full year subscription to “ European Radiology “ For further information please visit the EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY website. EPOS™ EPOS™ - the Electronic Presentation Online System of the ECR - is accessible as a permanent online database of about 2,300 scientific and educational presentations. Sign up for your personal demo account: EPOS Demo Account eECR - ECR's electronic congress View the scientific highlights of ECR 2005! Everybody interested is invited to browse through valuable scientific material, including numerous presentations from the areas of neuroradiology and chest radiology, interactive imaging teaching courses, special focus sessions on imaging ICU patients and fetal MR imaging, a New Horizons session on drug-eluting stents, and a State-of-the-Art Symposium on imaging of prostate cancer. In addition you will find the inauguration lecture by J.T. Ferrucci, as well as the honorary lectures by J.F. Debatin and L. Bonomo. For further information please visit the ECR website at www.ecr.org. |