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The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, started in 1997 as a joint project from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso and CONICYT.

The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is published quarterly and the first number appeared on April 15, 1998.

The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is a scientific, electronic and international journal, available only online. It publishes research and review articles in English on Biotechnology and related areas, such as molecular biology, chemistry of biological processes, environmental and industrial aspects, also computer applications and international cooperation policies. Articles related to multidisciplinary research are welcome. Articles are published in HTML and PDF format.

The journal presents the essential features of scientific publications. It is published quarterly and follows the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) recommendations. An international editorial board integrates 73 members from 24 countries, including the member of honor Dr. James D. Watson (Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1962.) Experts in the area evaluate articles accepting or rejecting manuscripts for publication. The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is committed to the security of the information by maintaining archives of the publications in compact disks.

The electronic format permits Electronic Journal of Biotechnology to outcome the deficiencies of the print edition. Communication between author and editor and between editor and peers is immediate. Also, articles are published faster because no printed edition exists. Therefore, articles accepted for publication with no modifications could be published within a month. Even though the journal is published quarterly, as soon as articles are accepted for publication they are made available as "articles accepted for the next issue".

Also, the electronic format allows readers to have instant and simultaneous access to the journal. The site provides the ability to search by keywords or authors allowing for fast retrieval of articles of interest.

Another advantage of the electronic format is the inclusion of hypertext and multimedia. Hypertext can make static reading on paper much more dynamic and interactive. Multimedia allows for the publication of three dimensional images and videos.

This format also permits a quantitative evaluation of the journal's impact on the international scientific community by incorporating a daily log of visits, which provides information not only about the daily number of visitors (approximately 350) but also which articles are most read, countries and organizations that are most active, libraries having links with Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, and other useful information.

Statistics show that access to Electronic Journal of Biotechnology during the first year online reached 27.000 visits. They also show that the areas having the greatest impact on the scientific community that reads Electronic Journal of Biotechnology are: biotechnology (vegetal, processing, medical, and environmental), molecular biology and genetics, as well as politics of international cooperation. This extensive community includes countries not only from Latin America, United States and Canada, but also Europe and Asia. We also found out that the Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is available in major libraries such as the library at the Molecular and Cell Biology Department at Harvard University and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Also, through the analysis of the visitors log, it was verified that the journal Scientific American had a link to one of the articles published in Electronic Journal of Biotechnology (see Agrobacterium tumefaciens in Monsanto http://www.sciam.com/1999/0399issue/0399medals.html)

The recent incorporation of an alert information system for readers, dubbed New Issue Alert, shows the level of interest towards the journal by the scientific community. Through this service, readers register with the site to receive information from Electronic Journal of Biotechnology via email. Currently we are in the process of implementing a bulletin board, which allows for real time interaction among biotechnologists from around the world.

The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology does not require subscription and represents and excellent option for publishing at no cost research and review articles in the area of biotechnology.

Once an article has been accepted for publication, the author is requested to re-write it in a new format named BIP, short for Biotechnology In Public. This format is a short version of the article written in a language more appropriate to the public in general. It is the result of the profound social impact of Biotechnology, which hopefully will keep rising over the years, making it an area of knowledge that ought to be open to the public.

The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is also a site that promotes cooperation among professionals in the area of Biotechnology. It provides many interesting links to Organizations, Research Centers, Events Calendar, Prizes, Fellowships, Sources of Information and others.

The Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is available on the Internet at:

http://www.ejbiotechnology.cl
http://www.ejbiotechnology.info

Its abbreviated title is Electron. J. Biotechnol., and it should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips.

The articles published in Electronic Journal of Biotechnology are indexed or summarized by:

The mission of the Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is to establish a plan to promote a more extensive dissemination and usefulness of information to the scientific and academic community on a nonprofit basis.

First: The copyright is granted from the author to the journal when the article is accepted for publication.

Second: All requests for commercial copying or reproduction should be addressed to the Editor. Also, all authorized reproduction in any form, or by any means, must give full credit to the article and the journal. In this context reproduction means when an article is copied by electronic or mechanical means more than three times by the same person. In addition, when data published in the EJB is included in another publication is also considered reproduction.

Third: printing and photocopy of articles are authorized for personal use. The use of the journal for educational purpose is encouraged. Particularly:

• Institutions may establish hypertext links to specific articles in the journal's site with the purpose of developing training packages, seminars, or instruction material. They cannot, however, place a digital version, or part of it, in their own servers for public access without authorization from the Editor.

• Nonprofit institutions in high education can make photocopies of articles for teaching purposes. In this case, they should inform the Editor the name of the course where the reproduction will be used, the assurance that it is an exact copy including the copyright note, and if any fee is charged, it covers only the cost of reproduction. It is prohibited to place the digital version and/or part of it in the institution's servers for public access without permission from the Editor.

Fourth: Authors can have a copy of the final version in their servers, but it is recommended they maintain a link to the server where the original article is located and include this note about usage policies.

Fifth: Copyright violations are the sole responsibility of the person who made the copy and not the service provider by transmitting material through the Internet or providing access to their servers.

The copyright is available at:http://www.ejb.org/documentos/

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