X-Message-Number: 2349 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: CRYONICS.announcement Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 23:34:20 PDT ANNOUNCEMENT The INSTITUTE FOR NEURAL CRYOBIOLOGY has just finished the process of incorpor- ation. It is a nonprofit society founded by cryonicists with the main purpose of publishing a scientific journal: NEUROCRYOBIOLOGY There are no ambitions for this journal to become, in short order, a leading journal in which every scientists clamors to be published. In fact, any cryonicist doing work bearing on neurocryobiology (anything to do with preservation of the brain) is urged to try to publish in more prestigious journals first. We aim, of course, to promote this journal and eventually to turn it into a scientific periodical respected by all; but given the present public opinion of cryonics, that aim may take a long time to be fulfilled. NEUROCRYOBIOLOGY exists, fundamentally, because as cryonicists we have noted that significant journals in the field deny publication to any cryonicist reporting any experiments bearing on cryonics. So, if all your attempts to publish in CRYOBIOLOGY, or the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, or any other standard journal fail, and you still believe you have something of scientific or technological interest to say, NEUROCRYOBIOLOGY exists to fill the gap. And please don't misunderstand. The best way for us to promote our journal is to publish good papers. And so with that in mind, your papers will receive a careful reading by referees who will scrutinize it for sloppy work, errors, lack of reference to previous relevant scientific work, or any of the other sins a paper can commit. And finally, they will judge it by the advance it makes on the problems of cryonic suspension. We hope to appear quarterly; but fundamentally, we will appear whenever enough papers arrive suiting our high standards. As do many scientific journals, we will have page charges if you can pay them, but if you can not pay then that will not influence our decision about publishing your paper. NEUROCRYOBIOLOGY will be sold by the issue, with a current issue price we estimate to be $25. All papers judged by the referees to be relevant to neurocryobiology will be considered for publication. However we do strongly favor papers with some experimental content. Thomas Donaldson, Editor Chairman of the Board, INC -- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2349