Editorial: A New Look
Eight years have passed since I took on the task, an enjoyable one, of editing this journal under its present title of Environmental Geochemistry and tlealth in succession to the earlier Minerals and the Environment. The years have seen a steady development in our style and content and an agreeable enhancement in our reputation. I would be the last to claim that we are now so well known that the postal authorities are forced to organise special deliveries for the daily flood of volunteered manuscripts. But we are kept busy and our papers are getting quoted. Just before I wrote this editorial Nature published a paper by Landsberg et al. (1992) who showed evidence that there is no aluminium in the plaques from post-mortem tissue from patients with Alzheimer's disease. I am not about to jump into that hot cauldron of debate. My point is that twice they refer to papers in our special aluminium issue of Volume 12 in 1990. It is nice to know that someone else reads our pages besides me and our authors. So we will sail optimistically into 1993 - but with a repainted hull and refurbished state rooms. Or, to come down to earth, with some design changes that we believe will enhance the appearance of the journal. For eight years we have been brown (but not browned off). Some of our readers have become strongly attached to our cover in both its design and hue. They tell me it is instantly recognisable in the library. The views of the other camp are not always printable in this sedate family periodical. Well, to kill the
calumny that we are a bunch of doddering reactionaries we are changing the colour to green, environmentally trendy if not necessarily friendly. We are also re-designing the cover layout so as to provide more information about the scope of the journal. Our print size will be a little larger and our layout will be modified so as to improve readability, a decision only marginally influenced by the fact that I now need reading glasses. We will also print on a glossy paper which will improve the sharpness of the text and illustrations. I hope you will like the new appearance. But, in the end, it is the quality of our papers that will impress the world not our looks. I am grateful to our reviewers who are the custodians of our quality. I am grateful to the increasing numbers of authors who submit their final manuscripts on computer discs, something we have pioneered and other journals are now copying. Above all, ! am grateful that researchers are sending me their papers. So seasonal greetings as we get nearer 1993 and let us keep the Post Office busy.
Brian E. Davies Oecernber 1992 (Reference: Landsberg, J.P., McDonald, B. and Watt, F. 1992. Absence of aluminium in neuritic plaque cores in Alzheimer's disease. Nature (London), 360, 65-68.)
Eight years have passed since I took on the task, an enjoyable one, of editing this journal under its present title of Environmental Geochemistry and tlealth in succession to the earlier Minerals and the Environment. The years have seen a steady development in our style and content and an agreeable enhancement in our reputation. I would be the last to claim that we are now so well known that the postal authorities are forced to organise special deliveries for the daily flood of volunteered manuscripts. But we are kept busy and our papers are getting quoted. Just before I wrote this editorial Nature published a paper by Landsberg et al. (1992) who showed evidence that there is no aluminium in the plaques from post-mortem tissue from patients with Alzheimer's disease. I am not about to jump into that hot cauldron of debate. My point is that twice they refer to papers in our special aluminium issue of Volume 12 in 1990. It is nice to know that someone else reads our pages besides me and our authors. So we will sail optimistically into 1993 - but with a repainted hull and refurbished state rooms. Or, to come down to earth, with some design changes that we believe will enhance the appearance of the journal. For eight years we have been brown (but not browned off). Some of our readers have become strongly attached to our cover in both its design and hue. They tell me it is instantly recognisable in the library. The views of the other camp are not always printable in this sedate family periodical. Well, to kill the
calumny that we are a bunch of doddering reactionaries we are changing the colour to green, environmentally trendy if not necessarily friendly. We are also re-designing the cover layout so as to provide more information about the scope of the journal. Our print size will be a little larger and our layout will be modified so as to improve readability, a decision only marginally influenced by the fact that I now need reading glasses. We will also print on a glossy paper which will improve the sharpness of the text and illustrations. I hope you will like the new appearance. But, in the end, it is the quality of our papers that will impress the world not our looks. I am grateful to our reviewers who are the custodians of our quality. I am grateful to the increasing numbers of authors who submit their final manuscripts on computer discs, something we have pioneered and other journals are now copying. Above all, ! am grateful that researchers are sending me their papers. So seasonal greetings as we get nearer 1993 and let us keep the Post Office busy.
Brian E. Davies Oecernber 1992 (Reference: Landsberg, J.P., McDonald, B. and Watt, F. 1992. Absence of aluminium in neuritic plaque cores in Alzheimer's disease. Nature (London), 360, 65-68.)
