Vol. 41, No. 1-2, 1997
FOLIA VETERINARIA: A start of new decennium
Prof. Dušan Magic, DVM, PhD, Editor in Chief
Summary
In 1996 the scientific journal FOLIA VETERINARIA completed the fortieth year of its existence. It was a good opportunity to look back on its history starting in the mid-fifties and reaching always to the present (see Vol. 40, No. 1 - 2, p. 3; 1996). This year marks not only the start of new (fiftieth) decennium of its existence but also the period of reorganization of the editorial board that has started in the past year as well as the effort to increase its standards with the aim to become included in the "Current contents" as it was explained and substantiated in the foreword of the former editor in chief Prof. R. Cabadaj, DVM, PhD, in the first double-number of the Vol. 40 of FOLIA VETERINARIA.
The importance of FOLIA VETERINARIA as a representative journal of UVL in Košice has been on increase lately simultaneously with all the necessary steps of the Slovak Republic on its way to approximation to European Union.
In relation to above mentioned the Scientific Council of UVL plans to speed up the analysis and evaluation of the present situation in the scientific research activities with regard to individual departments and on the basis of this to develop its future conception. This conception will include the development of a system of scientific research priorities based on nationwide necessities in the Slovak Republic and compatibility with the development of veterinary universities (particularly the scientific research activities) in the advanced countries. This is the sphere in which the University of Veterinary Medicine in Košice will increase the collaboration within the scope of European Association of Veterinary Universities, Alliance of American and European Veterinary Universities (of which our University is a founding member) as well as within the organization founded in 1994 by the name of "Veterinary Network of European Student/Staff Transfer" - VETNEST; members of this organization are veterinary university institutions - Brno, Vienna, Budapest, Košice, Ljubljana. The member institutions of this association have had their representatives on the editorial board of FOLIA VETERINARIA so this journal has also become a scientific journal of the veterinary universities mentioned.
I wish to FOLIA VETERINARIA journal all the success in achieving the goals mentioned above before the beginning of the third millenium. This can be done only by joined effort of the editorial board, a collective of authors and referees of scientific papers and a wide circle of specialists engaged in veterinary medicine and related fields of science.
Folia Veterinaria / 1997