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This December issue not only closes the final volume of 2006 but also ends the first chapter in the life of Europhysics Letters. This stepping stone leads towards a new EPL embarking on its second youth.For twenty years, Europhysics Letters has been published under the partnership of three learned societies:the refereeing procedure was handled by the Editorial Office representing the European Physical Society whilethe production was handled jointly by the Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF) and EDP Sciences for the Société Française de Physique.Starting from 2007, the UK Institute of Physics (IOP), as one of the four major owners, will take anactive role in the publication of EPL. The partners will work closely to offer highly efficient services to readers, authors, co-editors and referees in addition to providing high dissemination of top quality papers.Our vision for EPL is to develop into a leading journal for physics letters throughout the globe, to offer rapid publication of ground-breaking physics results from the international community, and to ensure thebroadest coverage of physics research.In order to realize this vision and continue providing the best possible service to customers, numerouschanges are to be introduced from January 2007: Europhysics Letters will be rebranded as EPL to reflect the international research published in the journal and its global readership a new cover design will be introduced featuring images taken from recent journal articles, which willchange with each volume the size of the printed issues will increase to A4 and, to accommodate this change, articles will nowappear in two-column rather than single-column format; the length of articles will be limited to sixjournal pages new macros have been designed by SIF to help prepare manuscripts in the new EPL format (thesemacros are available at https://www.epletters.net) an article numbering system will be introduced, which means that articles can be published on-linefaster than ever before and will be fully citable as soon as they appear on-line the submissions and peer-review process for articles will continue to be administered by the EditorialOffice and the copy-editing, production of proofs and offprints, and formatting will still beundertaken by SIF. However, starting from Vol. 77, EPL will become available on a new website(http://www.epljournal.org) hosted by IOP Publishing. Printing and distribution of the printed copy will remain with EDP Sciences work is progressing towards making the first ten years of Europhysics Letters (1986–1995) available as a comprehensive history of the journal all articles published since 1996 will be available on-line to subscribersThe latest published articles will continue to be freely available to everybody for 30 days from their on-linepublication date.We invite you to visit the new website regularly (http://www.epljournal.org) to stay up-to-date withthe journal's latest developments and to read the most recent articles. Please remember to use the on-linesubmission system for your subsequent best papers!If you have comments or questions about changes taking place in 2007, please e-mail us at info@epljournal.org or info@epljournal.org.With our best wishes for 2007!The EPL Management Committee:
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