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European Journal of Neuroscience

Published on behalf of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

Edited by:
Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter 

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EJN publishes original research articles and reviews in the broad fields of molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, and cognitive neurosciences. EJN aims to advance our understanding of the nervous system in health and disease, thereby improving the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Papers should present novel results that can be of interest to a broad spectrum of neuroscientists.  Papers dealing with specialized techniques or advances are welcome, but they must be written so that the important new observations or interpretations can be understood by neuroscientists in all branches of the subject. Publish your research in the journal to benefit from:

• No submission fee or page charges.
• Online submission through Manuscript Central™.
• Expert and rigorous peer review.
• Low-cost colour figures (free colour in the online version).
• Rapid online publication: final papers published online ahead of issue publication.

In addition, authors of review articles published in EJN can take advantage of the following:

• A year's free online subscription to EJN.
• Free colour figures.
• 20 free offprints to first-named author.
• Regular updates on downloads and citations.
• A free book to first-named author.

Read our Author Guidelines before submitting your next manuscript to EJN.

EJN is fully accessible to members of all national and monodisciplinary societies affiliated to FENS, and to the member of the Society for Neuroscience. 

TopNews and Announcements

New editors tell us what is in store for EJN
Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter, joint Editors-in-Chief of EJN, are continuing the excellent work of Barry Everitt and Chris Henderson who handed-over the reins at the FENS Forum in Geneva. Issue 28:8 of EJN will be the first full issue publishing papers managed by the new editors and sample copies of this issue will be available at the Neuroscience 2008 conference in Washington DC in November. In the meantime, read the editorial published in issue 28:6 and find out What is in store for EJN?

NIH-funded authors and EJN
From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed author manuscripts in PubMed Central, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. In order to help authors comply with the NIH mandate, for papers accepted for publication in European Journal of Neuroscience after this date Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted manuscript (incorporating all amendments made during peer review, but prior to the publisher's copy-editing and typesetting) of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central at the point of acceptance by the journal. This version will then be made publicly available in PubMed Central 12 months after publication. Following the deposit Wiley-Blackwell authors will receive further communications from the NIH with respect to the submission. For further information, see here. 

If authors wish to make their final published article openly accessible and without a 12 month embargo, they can choose to publish via the OnlineOpen service. 

Wellcome and HHMI grantees can find out further information here.

Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium 
The European Journal of Neuroscience has joined the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC) for a 1 year trial period starting January 2008. The Consortium is an alliance of neuroscience journals that have agreed to share manuscript reviews, at the author's request. Its goal is to speed and enhance thorough peer review by reducing the number of times that manuscripts are reviewed.
 
The growing pressure to send manuscripts to journals with the highest profile has increased the number of times that manuscripts are reviewed by different referees and has lengthened the time between the first submission of a manuscript and its eventual publication. Manuscripts submitted to a Consortium journal from January 2008 are eligible to have their reviews forwarded to another Consortium journal if they are not accepted for publication. By reducing or eliminating the need for new reviews at the second journal, this process has the potential to reduce workloads and speed the publication of new data.
 
A complete list of Consortium journals and details of the review-sharing process can be found at the Consortium's website, which is hosted by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility. Although the Consortium provides a valuable new opportunity, no one is required to take part. If authors do not wish to have their reviews forwarded, nothing will be exchanged between journals, and authors can submit their manuscript to another journal without its history being known, as is currently done. Similarly, if reviewers do not want their identity revealed to editors at a second journal, they have the option of remaining anonymous to external editors.
 
We hope that the option to share reviews between journals will reduce the burden on reviewers and bring new results to readers more quickly.
 
Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter, Editors-in-Chief 
European Journal of Neuroscience

EJN full archive online
Every issue of EJN is available online from volume 1, issue 1 (January 1989). This archive is available free to all SfN members accessing EJN through the SfN website and members of FENS-affiliated societies who have activated their member access to EJN. Institutions can purchase these backfiles (1989-1996 issues) for a one-off fee for archival rights and access in perpetuity: click here for details.
Click here to read EJN online.

SfN and FENS society members free online access to EJN
SfN members are entitled to free online access to EJN. Simply log-in with your SfN membership details on the SfN website to link through to the journal online. In addition, members of FENS-affiliated societies are also eligible for free online access to EJN. Please contact your national society to obtain access instructions.

FENS EJN Award
This biennial prize, funded by Wiley-Blackwell and EJN, is given in recognition of outstanding scientific work in all areas of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of 18,000 Euro.

In 2008, the prize has been awarded to John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, who has had a lifetime interest in the hippocampus and its role in memory. More information...

The FENS EJN Award 2008 was presented in Geneva during the Forum of European Neuroscience 2008, where the prize winner gave a special lecture.

The FENS EJN Award 2006 was awarded to John Garthwaite, whose review paper has been published in EJN. Click here to read the paper online.

The FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize
This biennial prize, funded by Wiley-Blackwell and EJN, is given in recognition of outstanding scientific work in all areas of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of 12,000 Euro.

In 2008, the prize has been awarded to is Dr Thomas Klausberger, Senior Scientist at the Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit of the Medical Research Council in Oxford, UK who received the FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize for his major contributions to our understanding of the role of the GABAergic interneuronal networks to the generation and control of cortical oscillations. More information...

The FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize 2008 was presented in Geneva during the Forum of European Neuroscience 2008, where the prize winner gave a special lecture.

Online submissions
Page charges waived for online submissions at Manuscript Central.

Articles published online ahead of print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online before the full issue is compiled.

Free access in the developing world
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Wiley-Blackwell is carbon neutral
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TopHighlights

European Brain Council:
Read this European Brain Council paper, published in EJN issue 24:10 (November 2006), free online:
Resource allocation to brain research in Europe (RABRE)
P. Sobocki, I. Lekander, S. Berwick, J. Olesen and B. Jönsson