Publisher Report

In January 2004 Ultraschall in der Medizin/European Journal of Ultrasound (UiM/EJU) became the official journal of EFSUMB. Today we are looking back on two years of most successful cooperation. From January 2004 until December 2005 as many as 1,900 additional members among EFSUMB have subscribed to the journal. At present the members of the following countries receive UiM/EJU as part of their membership: Austria, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Norway and Switzerland. Most recently, the Flemish and Macedonian societies also joined the journal with bulk subscriptions.

Under agreement between Thieme Publishers and EFSUMB all members of EFSUMB are entitled to receive the journal for € 28.94 per year (a little over 10% of the full price) when the entire society subscribes and the fees are collected by the national society. For a slightly higher fee of € 35 individuals can subscribe via EFSUMB - this is still a substantial discount to receive a high quality journal representing some of the best science and clinical research in ultrasound. All members of EFSUMB who do not yet subscribe to the journal receive the first issue of 2006 free. We would like to strongly encourage these members to recommend to their national society to subscribe to the journal so that UiM/EJU is made available to all members and they are enabled to remain up-to-date with some of the best ultrasound in Europe.

In line with its Europeanisation, the quality of the journal has also increased in the past two years as can be seen from the rising impact factor (see table). The move to a maximum of 50% English language papers in the journal was a success and all contributions made in German are still accompanied by full English text for all illustrations and table legends.

To facilitate the entire review process we have decided to provide an online submission system for both authors and editors of UiM/EJU. The system will be launched on March 1, 2006 and is accessible at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eju. We are confident that online submission will be received very well by our authors and that this will contribute to a further increase in the number of manuscript submissions. Many thanks for your support of UiM/EJU!