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Correspondence to:
Leo van de Putte, UMC Nijmegen, Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB, The Netherlands; l.vandeputte@reuma.umcn.nl
Accepted 17 January 2008
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The year 1999 was a landmark year for the European league Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and BMJ Publishing Group: the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD), the world’s oldest English rheumatology journal, became the official journal of EULAR, from then on being co-owned by both organisations. This marriage has proven to be a success story; the growing importance and influence of EULAR in the field of rheumatology in its broadest sense being mirrored in a very well kept and managed journal.
It has been a great experience and honour for me to have been the first editor of the journal in its new role, starting in July 1999. From then on there have been quite a few changes. A very important one was that the manuscript handling and processing became totally electronic, allowing for a substantial increase in efficiency and speed. In addition, the Online First facility of the journal now
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