With some sadness I am finally handing over the Editorship of the EASST Review. Sixteen volumes, 54 issues, with between 20 and 64 pages, “hand produced” with the simplest of graphical techniques, have left my personal computer. The resulting paper journal was not without attractiveness, I dare say. Of course, the journal has not been my own making. A large number of authors (I didn’t count them…) contributed book reviews, discussion articles, reports, and kept alive the social and scholarly life of our Association in-between the EASST and joint EASST/4S conferences. The Contributing Editors have been invaluable. Janet Rachel Low and Gerald Wagner wrote a number of spirited pieces around 1996 - we were all sad when Janet discontinued her “Letters from London”. Paul Wouters, from time to time, flashed a spotlight on the scientometric tradition, usually when we thought it had passed away. In recent years, Harald Rohracher infused the Review with new energy from central and easst Europe. Andy Jamison has been steadfastly contributing from the early years of my Editorship until this very last issue, with pieces that were always opinionated, very well written and very informative. My warmest thanks, however, go to Richard Rogers, the “Deputy”. He turned compiling a Conference Announcements section into an art. Very often, when I thought I had composed a balanced issue rich in content, most of the compliments I received were for the conference section. And lest anyone would think Richard’s contributions were limited to assembling announcements, let me just mention that the EASST Review had a first on the now world-famous Issue Crawler.
Fortunately, Christine Hine found a successor. I am glad we have a enthusiastic new Editor, who is already setting ambitious new goals for the Review. Ann, I hope you will enjoy the Review as much as I did.