Carcinogenesis vol.26 no.2 © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved.
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Editorial
2004 has been another successful year for Carcinogenesis.
We continue to achieve our aim of providing authors with rapid review and publication online – the average paper receives a decision within 25 days, and accepted manuscripts are published online through the journal's Advance Access facility within two weeks of acceptance. The number ofsubmissions has increased – at the time of writing we expect to receive over 900 original manuscripts in 2004 – and the Editors have an acceptance rate of 
30%. I would like to thank my colleagues, Roger Reddel, Chung S Yang and Manuel Serrano, for their continued hard work and support as Editors of the journal.
Many thanks are also due to the large number of referees, including members of the Editorial Board, who have helped us to attain such rapid review times and high quality. We would like to welcome 12 new Editorial Board members who will be joining the Board for three year terms: Drs Paola Boffetta, Leona Samson, Ben Wong, Tomas Lindahl, Young-Joon Surh, Lisa Coussens, Susan Lees-Miller, Pierre Hainaut, Monica Hollstein, Chris Paraskeva, Kohzoh Imai and Roland Wolf. We also thank Drs Allan Balmain, Vilhelm Bohr, Andrew J Dannenberg, Denise Galloway, Richard Marais, Rolf Schulte-Hermann, Manuel Serrano (now an Editor of thejournal), Takashi Sugimura and Xin Wei Wang who rotate off the Board at the end of 2004.
Online publication has enabled the journal's publisher, Oxford University Press, to extend cost-effective access to Carcinogenesis to many more institutions, for example, through traditional subscriptions, consortia sales to groups of libraries, and a Developing Countries initiative (see http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/devel/). Over 2500 institutions currently have online access to the journal (representing an increase of 100% in the last two years). At the same time, use of the online version has increased dramatically – there are 100,000 full-text downloads on average each month. Carcinogenesis aims to publish Commentaries (short review papers) in each issue, and these are freely available online immediately at the journal's web site (http://carcin.oupjournals.org/); all other papers become free online after two years.
At the same time the journal strives to minimise publication charges for authors – authors are not required to pay page charges and we have recently been able to reduce our colour charges for 2005, from £695 to £350 per figure. In addition, colour images can be published free of charge as online-only Supplementary data.
The winners of the two biannual awards presented by Carcinogenesis were announced at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Cancer Research in Innsbruck, July 3–5, 2004. The Anthony Dipple Carcinogenesis Award for a senior investigator was awarded to Professor Sir David Lane in recognition of his landmark discovery of p53, and the Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award was awarded toDr MarĠa Blasco, for her ground-breaking work in the area of telomeres.
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