“People are always working away inventing new things. I have a particular interest in umbrellas for instance and you would be surprised how many improvements you can come up with for an umbrella”

Michael Blackman , Editor-in-Chief of World Patent Information

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25 January, 2010

See YS Chi's address to the Journal Editors' Conference in Boston earlier this year.
5 October, 2009. 

One of the largest ever international surveys of authors and reviewers: the Peer Review Survey 2009 was conducted by Sense About Science. Preliminary findings were presented at the British Science Festival at Surrey University, UK.
16 September, 2009.

The Editors' marketing information pack provides an overview of marketing activities carried out for Elsevier journals by the Marketing Communications Department
13 August, 2009

Joseph H. Astrachan is the Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming journal – Journal of Family Business Strategy. Joe is the Executive Director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and the Wachovia Eminent Scholar Chair of Family Business at Kennesaw State University. 

The Journal’s aim is to investigate family business strategy from different angles and disciplinary backgrounds; all starting from well-grounded theoretical foundations and with rigorous research methods. The first issue is scheduled for January of 2010 but the inaugural editorial is already on ScienceDirect.

Joe Astrachan, Editor-in-Chief of the new journal, remarked “Given that 2010 will mark the 130th birthday of Elsevier and the 430th anniversary of the publishing house of Elzevir, the family business from which the modern company takes its name, it seems natural that a new journal in the family business field will be affiliated with a publisher that stands for longevity, innovation, and sustainability – all attributes associated with great family enterprises.”

Find out more and view a video interview with Joe.

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale received the annual prize for excellent research from the Research Council of Norway. The award - amounting to 500.000 NOK - was handed over by Tora Aasland - Minister of Education and Research.

According to the jury: "Anne Lise Børresen-Dale ranks among the foremost experts in the country in the field of cancer research. Throughout a period of many years she has conducted ground-breaking research of excellent quality in a number of fields within her subject area. She has made decisive discoveries in research on lung cancer, testicular cancer, colon cancer and - in particular - breast cancer. Børresen-Dale has demonstrated outstanding skills as a builder of scientific milieus. She is involved in a large number of collaboration projects, both nationally and internationally. In 2008 she was elected president of the European Association for Cancer Research . Her research will gain a major clinical significance within diagnostics, therapy and cancer diseases."

Further information: Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale research group home page - Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer.

New journal: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Watch the video with the Editor-in-Chief, Rik Leemans, on the aims and scope of this new journal.