© Oxford University Press 2009
Editorial
This issue sees the completion of another successful volume for Bioscience Horizons with 23 papers being published in the two issues of Volume 2.During this year we have surveyed the views of both academics and students on Volume 1 and received some very positive comments, which is extremely pleasing. In all, 84 universities have engaged with the journal either by submitting students' papers or responding to the surveys. We are also pleased to note that the journal is being accessed regularly on-line at very respectable levels.
While the feedback elicited by our surveys provided some useful suggestions and comments, the main message was that the format and procedure for attracting submissions worked well and should not change in the immediate future. Given this affirmation, we would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our policy that students be the sole named authors, with acknowledgements clearly given to supervisors—and other individuals who have provided support during the completion of the research on which the submission is based—where appropriate. Although this matter causes a few supervisors concern, because of the need for them to accumulate citable references, it is clear that the value to the student of sole authorship is acknowledged by the majority.
Unsurprisingly, the journal is less well known by the broader undergraduate population to date. However, all student authors who responded to the survey strongly agreed that the experience both benefited them and helped them to appreciate better how science was communicated. It is very gratifying to see one of the founding principles of the journal—that of providing students with a means of developing their science communication skills—being borne out by the authors' experience in practice.
We are also delighted to have secured support from several learned societies; we thank the Society for Reproduction and Fertility, the Society for General Microbiology and the Society for Experimental Biology for their sponsorship.
We will be writing to Heads of Departments to invite submissions for Volume 3 in May 2009 and will be continuing to work hard to secure the longer-term future for Bioscience Horizons beyond Volume 3.
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Aurora Levesley for her contribution to developing the journal and for providing administrative support for Volumes 1 and 2.
Bioscience Horizons Editorial Board
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