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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 97, Num. 1, 2002, pp. 1

Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 97(1) 2002, pp. 1

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz: New Layout

José Rodrigues Coura

Editor

Code Number: oc02001

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz will complete 93 years next April.

It was founded in 1909 by Oswaldo Cruz, who directed the Institute at the time and who, today, is considered the patron of Brazilian Public Health. During this period, Memórias had 96 volumes published and also a number of supplements, especially from 1980 on, when the periodical went through a modernization process. In volume 75, of the same year, Memórias introduced, for the first time, the figure of an Editor, along with an Assessorship and an Editorial Board, constituted of fourteen external members, among the most distinguished professionals of the national scientific community, and ten members among the most representative researchers of the very Institute. From that time on, there have been more opportunities for publishing works from different institutions, either national or international, about various subjects, such as parasitology, microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, pathology, entomology, malacology, biology and, also, infectious and parasitical diseases epidemiology.

For the last two decades, Memórias had three other editors, besides the current one: Drs Leonidas de Mello Deane, Eloi de Souza Garcia e Hooman Momen. In 1988, in order to substitute the Chief of Secretariat, it was created for the function of Administrative Editor, held by Marly de Carvalho Willcox until 1995 and, since 1996, by Luciane de Carvalho Soares. The Editors, the Editorial Board, the International Advisory Board (created by Homan Momen) and the Secretariat staff were, and still are, responsible for the modernization process and scientific level improvement of Memórias, which, today, is the first more cited tital among all periodicals published in Latin America and the fourth, throughout the world, among journals specialized in Tropical Medicine. Although it is considered a traditional biomedical journal, Memórias pioneered in developing an on-line version, if compared with other developing countries' scientific publications.

To celebrate ninety years of existence, Memórias produced a CD-ROM, which contains the titles of all articles published since its foundation, in 1909, as well as the full texts and the illustrations of the articles published from 1997 so far. The CD has also a search tool, that allows the user to access all information available and may be ordered by the following e-mail: memorias@pobox.com.

From the present volume, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, maintaining its tradition, exhibits a new layout, a more economic format and a better quality paper. Besides, each volume will bring a "guest review", presenting a theme of great social and scientific relevance, in order to discuss different points of view.

Considering current patterns, Memórias usually publishes its articles within a very acceptable interval of time; however, as internet communication is extremely fast, the editorial process will have to be changed, in middle term. The way of receiving manuscripts and correspondence with authors and members of the Editorial Board should be modified, so that administrative tasks become more dynamic and less bureacratic.

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