In the year when the Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje celebrates the 15 anniversary of its existence, the Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation has been running its ninth year, and now with a new Editorial Board. Activities related to publishing and editorship in a small country of transition such is Macedonia, is more than a Sisyphean task. Facing numerous problems such as a small interest for participation of special educators from our country, relatively low level of scientific commitment in comparison to the Western world, as well as the financial problems which burden the Editorial Board, we stand before Hamlet’s dilemma “to be or not to be”. We have decided to cope with these issues and to continue to exist due to the fact that our journal is the first journal on the Balkan in the field of special education and rehabilitation which has published the papers in both Macedonian and English language. In the meantime we have been indexed in data base of EBSCO and NUBSK, and we have applied for indexation for the following data base: Thomson Scientific, PsycINFO, Proquest Central, Scopus, and Index Copernicus etc. We sincerely hope to be included in some of them soon. The publication of our journal has not only been of interest to professionals and scientists from Macedonia, but as well as to authors from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, USA, Slovenia, Serbia, the Netherlands, Croatia. We intend to increase the number of papers by authors from other countries. You, respected readers, in this two-numbered journal 1-2 for 2008, can come across interesting contents in the field of special education and rehabilitation issue, medical treatment, psychology and pedagogy. You can encounter some attitudes, opinions and dilemmas, and the inevitable columns: News, Information, Bibliography, and Abstracts on defended doctoral theses, as well as to get to know the experiences and innovation worldwide. As an Editorial Board, in the coming period, we will try to enhance the content and the technical quality of the journal. Furthermore, we will work on its internationalization, to increase its indexation and quoting. You, distinguished readers, can help us a lot to fulfill our mission with your well-intentioned remarks and suggestions, with your interest for publishing your papers and your wish to get this journal for your libraries. |