Granted, even in our age of electronic communication, international periodicals are indispensable in bringing the practitioners of a science in closer contact. They have always been—and still are—a major tool for reducing duplication while promoting the exchange of information, opinions and scholarly achievements. The better scholarly periodicals, moreover—those which operate within well-defined programs—do not merely reflect ongoing research. They also direct it in new, often more profitable channels, thus leading to a total re-deployment of the whole discipline.