Dear colleagues,
We hope you have heard that a new journal ‘Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases’ (TTBDIS), published by Elsevier, will appear shortly.
The launch of this journal is now nearing completion. There are 10 Associate Editors, responsible for handling manuscripts in different fields, and we have an Editorial Board representing various geographical areas and different fields of research.
You can find information on the people currently involved, instructions to authors, ‘Aims & Scope’ of the journal etc. at TTBDis at elsevier.com and at TTBDis at elsevier.de.
Volume 1 (2010) will have 4 issues, the first of which will be published in March 2010. We already have the first accepted manuscripts waiting for publication, and it has been impressive to see the enthusiasm and commitment of the authors, the Associate Editors, the Editorial Board members, and the reviewers involved so far.
The response of colleagues in our scientific community to the concept of a scientific journal dedicated to ticks and tick-borne diseases was extremely positive. The journal will bring together researchers from different fields (e.g., zoology, ecology, microbiology, molecular biology, human medicine, veterinary medicine), working on ticks and/or tick-borne diseases.
The success of a scientific journal project depends on many conditions including the dedicated participation of many persons, but it stands primarily on two legs: a high frequency of incoming good-quality submissions and sufficient readership (subscriptions).
Elsevier fixed the price for a personal subscription for 2010 (print version) at only 50 Euro/60 USD which is very attractive. Consequently we already have approximately 300 personal subscriptions (e.g., all the participants of the 10th Int. Jena Symp. on Tick-borne Diseases [IJSTD] held in March 2009 already have a personal subscription for 2010), and the number is growing.
Readers wish to read good-quality papers, so we need good-quality submissions. If we all wait and think ‘Let’s see if this journal will be successful!’, it won’t be successful and the chance would be missed. If many of us decide to submit a paper to TTBDIS now, this may be a challenge for the editorial team but the journal will have the benefit. So, please, consider to submit a paper to TTBDIS soon at ees.elsevier.com/ttbdis
There are several good reasons why publishing with TTBDIS:
We hope you will submit a paper to TTBDIS soon and encourage your institution library to take out a subscription!
We wish you a peaceful Christmas time and a Happy New Year!
December 2009
Jochen Süss Olaf Kahl (Editor-in-Chief) (Managing Editor)
Here some already accepted TTBDIS papers:
Louis Ates, Christa Hanssen-Hübner, Douglas E. Norris, Dania Richter, Peter Kraiczy, Klaus-Peter Hunfeld: Comparison of in vitro activities of tigecycline, doxycycline, and tetracycline against the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.
Lise Gern, Véronique Douet, Zully López, Olivier Rais, Francisca Morán Cadenas: Diversity of Borrelia genospecies in Ixodes ricinus ticks in a Lyme borreliosis endemic area in Switzerland identified by using new probes for reverse line blotting.
Jeremy Gray, Annetta Zintl, Anke Hildebrandt, Klaus-Peter Hunfeld, Louis Weiss: Zoonotic babesiosis: Overview of the disease and novel aspects of pathogen identity.
Anke Hildebrandt, Angela Krämer, Svea Sachse, Eberhard Straube: Detection of Rickettsia spp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks in a region of Middle Germany (Thuringia).
W. Reuben Kaufman: Ticks: Physiological aspects with implications for pathogen transmission.
Anne M. Kupca, Sandra Essbauer, Gudrun Zoeller, Philippe G. de Mendonça, Roland Brey, Monika Rinder, Kurt Pfister, Martin Spiegel, Bastian Doerrbecker, Martin Pfeffer, Gerhard Dobler: Isolation and molecular characterization of a tick-borne encephalitis virus strain from a new tick-borne encephalitis focus with severe cases in Bavaria, Germany.
Gabriele Margos, Durland Fish: Klaus Kurtenbach – a tribute to his life.