## Henning Bergenholtz & Jan Engberg

## Hermes in the future

As we already mentioned in the last issue of our journal, Hermes is work  ing on different parts of its image in these years. This has lead to a change in language policy, so that in future we will usually only accept articles  and  reviews  written  in  English,  German,  French  or  Spanish, where  as Danish articles and reviews will only be accepted in very few cases. Furthermore, we want to limit the number of pages, compared to what has become the tradition for Hermes . So instead of the normal 300+ pages, future issues will have a volume of 200-250 pages. This may mean that we will have a slightly higher rejection rate than before, but we still encourage you to hand in manuscripts for the journal. Also in the future we will try to meet our three central goals, viz. high level of scientifi  c quality, a considerable proportion of publications by young scholars, and a fast publication process. So do not hesitate to send us your work.

In the next two issues of Hermes you will fi  nd thematic sections on knowledge communication (no. 37) and on language and communication in public organisations (no. 38). With these two sections we document the development of two of the prominent research areas of the Department of Language and Business Communication at the Aarhus School of Business and thus also the breadth of topics relevant for our journal. Suggestions for further thematic sections from the readers are always welcome.

Finally, the next anniversary of the journal (20 years in 2008) is fast ap  proaching. As a special arrangement in relation to this special day, we have decided to bring out as no. 39 a register of all articles in the fi  rst 38 issues of Hermes . A colleague has already started the work and is putting a lot of time and effort into setting up a thorough and detailed register of the considerable number of articles published until now in our  journal.  We  hope  that  you  will  welcome  this  initiative  and  take advantage of the opportunities that such a register offers for fi  nding speci  fi  c articles and for getting an overview of the realm of articles published over the years.

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