Note from the Editors

A website is an ideal site to post large amounts of information, especially reference information requiring periodic updating.

We are initiating a new feature, On the Web. Our first posting is Drugs and Vaccines for Pediatric Travelers: An Integrated Table. This monumental work will be especially helpful to the many travel health professionals who deal mainly with adults but who also see pediatric travelers. The text, several very large tables, and the references will appear on the web site. The text of the article, without table and references, will appear in the next issue of the Journal of Travel Medicine (8/5). The tables will be updated, as necessary.

Drugs and Vaccines for Pediatric Travelers: An Integrated Table was compiled by Caroline S. Zeind of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston, and Mary E. Wilson of the Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We hope this posting will be the first of many. Please contact us if you or someone you know has developed a similar compilation and is willing to share it will our membership.

Charles D. Ericsson, MD, Editor, Journal of Travel Medicine
Karl Neumann, MD, International Society of Travel Medicine Web Editor

ISTM Listserve

This is a reminder for all new members as well as old members.

For those who want to electronically interact in a regular manner within the discipline of travel medicine TRAVELMED, the ISTM Listserv is available. This is an unmoderated discussion group restricted to ISTM members that must be actively joined. It is not automatic with your membership.

To join: Send an e-mail message to: listserv@yorku.ca with the words "subscribe travelmed XXXXX XXXXX (type your own name where the X's are)" in the body, not the subject line, of the message. Once accepted for membership, you will automatically receive further instructions from the server.

Further technical instructions as well as the TravelMed Charter (describes scope of allowable topics) are on the ISTM Website at www.istm.org. The most important thing to understand, once you have subsribed is that items (called postings) for dissemination to the entire group will then need to be sent to the e-mail address travelmed@yorku.ca. The listserv@yorku.ca address above is only for administrative commands to the computer.

At present over 400 ISTM members from over 30 countries participate in stimulating and sometimes lively discussion. We hope you will join too.

David O. Freedman, MD
Chair ISTM Electronic Communications

Impact Factor of the Journal of Travel Medicine

Many of you have asked about when Journal of Travel Medicine will have an impact factor. We have a hard answer in the communication below addressed to our JTM administrative assistant.

The people who calculate impact factors, ISI, require three full years of data for their calculations. Since ISI began covering "Journal of Travel Medicine" in 1999, it will first appear in the 2001 Journal Citation Reports, which will be published in 2002.