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Editorial: a new era for the EJM

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The year 2007 will mark the beginning of a new era for the EJM, through the fortuitous coincidence of several major events.

EJM joined the GeoScienceWorld aggregate (GSW) last summer, according to a decision made by the councils of the four owner societies. Within a few weeks, the EJM will be available online on the GSW site (http://eurjmin.geoscienceworld.org/), along with over 30 journals of other learned societies active in the Earth sciences, including all the major Mineralogy-related journals. This joining of forces is clearly a political decision. The creation of GSW highlights the central publisher role that the learned societies play in Earth sciences; by establishing in a unified effort a single bundle of Earth science journals with outstanding cross-linking and search facilities, the learned societies demonstrate that they can offer a viable alternative to the big private publishing houses that are strangulating our libraries.

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