The Editorial Offices for Germany and the Americas terminate
their activities due to one-sided decisions of the publisher by 30
June 2003. At the same time a substantial number of members of the Editorial
Board resigned. We wish to thank all authors and reviewers for their trust
and support over the past more than 20 years of Wolfgang Hennig's Managing
Editorship.
We advise authors to submit their papers in future to
non-commercial journals to terminate the misuse of tax money by the
publishers and guarantee that the money flows back into
science. This is the case for journals such as EMBO Journal,
EMBO Reports, Genetics, Development and many others. Keep
yourself informed and realize that you are supporting
science but not private pockets by publishing in these journals. EMBO
Journal, for example, finances many of EMBO activities
such as the World Programme, certain fellowships and other general EMBO
activities. The pending laws in the USA
will contribute to create a new situation which assures that
we as authors retain our copy rights on our work.
On this homepage I shall update the discussion on this matter in future!
Please note the following
publications of the American Society of Cell Biology and of EMBO
in this context:
The journal
was founded in 1944 by Hans Bauer, who was Managing Editor for almost 40
years. Subsequent Managing Editors were Wolfgang Beermann (from 1982), Wolfgang Hennig
(from 1982) and Herbert Taylor (from 1983), continuing the traditional presentation of chromosome research
into the molecular area. Later Wolfgang Hennig and Peter Moens, Yasushi
Hiraoka and Bruce McKee followed as Managing Editors.
(The background of these pages is a part of a "Miller spread" of
a Y chromosomal gene of Drosophila. Growing transcripts are visualized
with the aid of the electron microscope in my laboratory)