The original scientific articles published in the Acta Scientiarum Polonorum - Technologia Alimentaria journal cover all aspects of food science from raw materials properties trough processing and economical aspects up to consumer quality of final products and their nutritional acceptability.

Sirs,

We would like to introduce to You the next issue of Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Technologia Alimentaria, the journal edited by all Polish Agricultural Universities. This journal offers the original scientific articles and, to some extend, review monographic papers. We observe growing popularity and scientific recognition of our journal. Including this journal in databases of some leading indexing and abstracting institutions, both Polish (e.g. Agro- Librex, Agro-Agen) and international ones, like FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts), CAB International (being a part of Thomson ISI databases)), Ulrich`s Database, CAS (Chemical Abstracts) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) confirms the above given opinion as well.

Our own Internet site www.food.actapol.net also helps us very efficiently to increase the broad recognition of the journal. PDF format, used also there, allows print out of the article, being consistent with „paper” version of this article and could be a bibliographic document. The site is covered by almost all popular search engines and is available through many scientific databases and foreign scientific libraries.

Usage statistics for this site, both for visits and (much more important) downloads of articles or their abstracts also indicates the extend popularity of our journal.

The recognition of our Journal abroad is confirmed by increasing number of downloads by users from other countries. Since our last Letter to Authors (covering the whole 2006 year) there were monthly on average: 8000 visits, 7830 downloads of full texts and 2790 downloads of abstracts. It is much more than during previous (2006) year (5820 – 1940 – 1620). Only 35% of downloads are made by Polish users, the rest of them are conducted abroad, totally in 83 countries (in that c. 41% in USA).

It means that papers presented in Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Technologia Alimentaria have being read in so many countries. It is connected directly with covering of our site by many outstanding scientific databases and on computer servers of leading universities both in Europe and in USA. It also shown users’ interest in problems presented in our Journal. This fact can influence significantly on the increase of citation of your articles by foreign authors in their papers, published also in other leading journals.

There is already a possibility to provide documentary evidence of the download history of any given article, which can help to show the interest in this paper or the scientific field covered by this article. Every Author of the paper presented in ACTA can obtain (on the e-mail address sent to redakcja@actapol.net) a password, which will make possibly for him to check readers´ interest in his works.

We count on Your help to popularize and propagate our journal: Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Technologia Alimentaria in your professional environment and we would like to ask You to pass this letter to your coworkers, including (or mainly) these who have not yet published any paper in our journal. We would like also to encourage You to acquaint with other Internet sites www.food.ejpau.net and www.ejpau.media.pl (there are put on the Master List ISI Thomson) and www.npt.arpoznan.net.

Yours faithfully
Editorial Board