What is in store for EJN?

Eleven years ago, when Barry Everitt assumed the editorship of EJN, he received a huge box of index cards and discovered a backlog of manuscripts worth an entire year of issues. When he and the co-editor-in-Chief, Chris Henderson, stepped down in July, we found a journal that is strongly supported by its co-owners, the Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, whose operations are run smoothly by a professional Editorial Office ([email protected]) and, most importantly, a journal that has developed into a modern international neuroscience journal with a short time lag between manuscript acceptance and publication. It will be a challenge to match Barry and Chris’ achievements and their dedication to the journal. Beginning with this issue, several major changes have been initiated for EJN. These changes are designed to maintain and enhance the quality of the contributions published in EJN, to make EJN visually more attractive and easier to read, and to foster the communication between EJN and its readers. The sectioning of the journal into five journal sections (Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience, Synaptic Mechanisms, Neurosystems, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience) represents the most salient change of the journal. Other major new features of EJN include: