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Dear EFORT members, members of specialty societies and readers of European Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EOTR),

The second year of EFORT’s journal starts with two steps in its necessary evolution.

Besides the Editorial Board and its reviewers, we now have the Board of Liaison Editors. They represent all the member societies of EFORT, and so they represent the different national orthopaedic societies.

The Editorial Board is one step towards the necessary networking in Europe and, hopefully, will give us all the chance to have the best and most interesting articles of each country in our journal, with the immediate huge distribution all over Europe. In addition, we have the chance to position hot topics for discussion in all the member nations.

The second change is that from now on we will promote the possibility for each author to use, in addition to his/her manuscript, internet-based videos. Would-be authors will find information about this possibility and technique at http://www.springer.com/authors/manuscript+guidelines?SGWID=0-40162-12-339499-0.

Electronic Supplementary Material is directly linked to the specific article in the journal on SpringerLink. Videos, for example, may be downloaded or viewed as streaming videos. These features add substantially to the information provided in the respective article; in particular, when it comes to video clips depicting surgical techniques and the like.