A message from the Editor

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Readers of Brain were informed in my editorial a year ago that the journal planned to make online submission available in the spring of 2001. A survey of a substantial random subset of our authors and reviewers in 2000 indicated that 75% were in favour. In the event, there was some slippage in the timing, but we began accepting papers online from late July 2001. The service is provided through ScholarOne, in collaboration with Oxford University Press. By mid‐November we had received over 170 papers on line, 2.5 times as many as those submitted as hard copy over that period. In retrospect, we were perhaps less than cautious in initiating a new system just as the main holiday period was starting and, as might have been expected, there have been some teething problems. Many of these were resolved through the skills and hard work of Lubna Zafar, our Editorial Assistant. On the few occasions when these problems affected authors or reviewers adversely, we offer our sincere apologies, and thank them for their forbearance. We also thank all authors and reviewers using the system for the first time who, if they encountered initial difficulties, persevered and overcame them. It is too early yet to say what impact this facility has had on the processing time for manuscripts, but we expect this to be shortened significantly. We are now asking all authors submitting manuscripts as hard copy to consider resubmitting online, because this will speed processing of their manuscript. Moreover, in the light of the potential disruption to mail service following the terrorist dispersion of anthrax spores, online submission may have some advantages for our North American correspondents that were quite unforeseen when we launched the online system.

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