Milestones in the history of Brain Research

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Milestones in the history of Brain Research .

1966

January: The first issue of Brain Research is published Managing Editor: Konrad Akert (see further for the Editorial Board, Editorial and Contents list of the first issue)

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1970

July: Dominick P. Purpura becomes joint Managing Editor, responsible for Short Communications

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1975

September: Dominick P. Purpura becomes Editor-in-Chief

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1979

Brain Research Reviews is started

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1981

Developmental Brain Research is started

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1986

Molecular Brain Research is started

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1992

Cognitive Brain Research is started

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1997

Brain Research Protocols is started (Editor: Floris Wouterlood)

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1998

Web-facilitated submission and peer review is introduced, and the Brain Research Interactive website is created to enable fast-track articles to be published online ahead of print; Floyd E. Bloom is appointed Editor for this type of article

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1999

the journal becomes available online in ScienceDirect (including all articles published since January 1996)

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2000

The annual Brain Research Young Investigator Awards" are introduced

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2001

Floyd Bloom becomes Co-Editor-in-Chief

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2002

Floyd Bloom becomes Editor-in-Chief and Editor of the main journal, and new Editors are appointed for the other journals: Brain Research Protocols: Floris Wouterlood Brain Research Reviews: Pierre J. Magistretti Cognitive Brain Research: George R. Mangun Developmental Brain Research: Tom Curran Molecular Brain Research: Jim Morgan

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2003

March: the electronic ‘‘backfiles’’ of Brain Research articles published during 1966 –1995 become available online in ScienceDirect By the end of the year, the electronic database contains over 58,000 Brain Research articles

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