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Georgios
TSAPARLIS
EXCERPTS: Issue 3 of CERAPIE concludes Volume 1 and contains another ten articles from the 5th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education (5th ECRICE). Two articles are invited contributions, and eight have undergone the review process. … A full appreciation of the contents of Volume 1 can be gained by browsing the Contents of the Volume at the end of this Issue, where there also is an Author Index and a Subject Index. … Volume 2 will include three Issues again, and is confidently expected that they will include both contributions remaining from the 5th ECRICE, and some independently submitted papers from other sources. The three issues of Volume 2 are planned for the months of February, May, and October 2001 respectively. Note that the financial situation of CERAPIE (from the 5th ECRICE) has now allowed for no publication fee to be imposed for papers that will be published in Volume 2. … (S)cience and chemistry education journals take too long to publish because of a limit to the number of published pages. … (In addition) the quality criteria for published papers may be set too high, by this pressure for space. This makes it difficult for new researchers to enter an internationally competitive field like science education research. Page charges can resolve the problems, while causing new ones. By canceling page charges, it is hoped that CERAPIE is doing its bit to encourage authors to submit their work for publication. The 6th ECRICE (combined with the 2nd European Conference on Chemical Education [2nd ECCE]), will take place from the 4th until the 8th of September 2001 in the University of Aveiro, Portugal. … It is hoped that Volume 3 of CERAPIE (which will be published in 2002) will include the main output from (this) EC(RI)CE. In this way, CERAPIE will continue to be a publication that mainly serves the EC(RI)Ces. On the other hand, we must take into account that chemistry education and the effort to improve it through research is an endeavour that should not be restricted by geographical barriers. It is natural then that CERAPIE welcomes authors from everywhere in the world in this field of research. Finally, on the completion of Volume 1, I would like to thank again all authors, reviewers, and readers of CERAPIE for their valuable contribution. In particular, I must thank Dr Michael Gagan, Chairman of the Division of Chemical Education of FECS for his constant encouragement and help with the publication of CERAPIE.
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