: Special thanks to...

The are a major project which would not have been possible without the help of many. Therefore my special thanks go to:

• the anonymous referees all over the world which a scientific journal as the needs for keeping a high standard of academic quality;
• the Institute for Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, my present home institution, for providing me with the (commercial) Adobe Acrobat software necessary to convert HTML files to PDF and PS files and the (commercial) HTML editor software;
• the University of Economics and Business Administration for providing us with the server on which is based, and in particular to Alfred Nagl, Peter Skamrada, Gerhard Gonter and Willi Langenberger for their help with my numerous technical questions;
• Christopher Nentwich for programming the search tool and Matt Wright for letting us use his FormMail script used for the comment service;
• Stefan Griller and Fritz Breuss for their support within ECSA-Austria;
• Gerda Falkner for her continous support and input of valuable ideas;
• and, finally, to all the others who supported the idea and encouraged me to proceed.

Michael Nentwich
editor-in-chief