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In March 1996 the Society of Experimental Biology (UK) together
with two other international scientific societies, the Australian
and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (formally
the American Society for Zoology) joined forces with
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg to produce one of the first fully
electronic online, peer-reviewed biological journals, Experimental
Biology Online. The present product represents the fruits of this
joint venture and encapsulates Volumes 1 and 2 of the journal. This
will be an ongoing series such that an archival version of the
journal will be available to all libraries as well as the on-line
version. At the outset this was "new land" for all concerned but
the launching of a journal which would cover experimental biology
in terms of Animal, Cell and Plant topics was daunting but we all
felt that the use of electronic media and the internet would be
ideally suited to this purpose.
Though it is a pleasure to write a short foreword to this
collection of excellent scientific papers covering a range of
biological topics, the rather depressing feature is the small
number of papers. All-electronic publishing is developing and your
Editors do have great faith in it. One problem for potential
authors has been the reluctance of the abstracting journals to pay
any attention to electronic journals - perhaps Springer should make
a rapid move in this area and start the first all-electronic
journal abstracting this type of literature. However, even the
paper citation journals are starting to pay attention to the
medium. The particular advantages of all-electronic publishing are
beginning to emerge more clearly and it is clear that publishing
video material is a unique advantage of our format. Several papers
took advantage of this - for example those by Riehle and others on
cell behaviour in tunnels, by Bereiter-Hahn and Voss on zonation in
the plasmalemma and by Pavlikova, Zicha, Chaloupkova and Vesely on
cell motility of tumour cells. These papers made essential and
extensive use of video material, publishing some material of great
originality. The work on cell pola rity and calcium ions in Fucus
embryos by Brownlee, Manison and Anning used animation to present
their results in an especially clear way. The facility of use of
animation is another special advantage of our type of publication
that should be more widely used."
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