History

The idea to build an EAR teaching database was originally launched in 1995 by Prof. J. Struyven (ULB, Belgium). The aim was to implement a search tool for radiological documents already published on the Internet. The Internet Resource Locator of the EAR was presented at the ECR '97 and was intended as a service to assist with the location and display of cases, educational material and works-in-progress produced by European radiologists.

In 1997, the EAR realized that a more comprehensive approach was needed in order to implement a structure that would parallel those of peer reviewed journals. A new project team was built; the project was submitted to the European Commission and was funded within the TAP (Telematics Application Programme).
The academic partners of the project, that was led by Prof. R. Sigal (IGR, France) included: EAR, the Institut Gustave Roussy (Villejuif), the Institut Jules Bordet (Brussels), the University of Pisa, the University of Rennes, and the University of Rome. The industrial partners (CITEC, Euromultimedia, and Agfa) provided the development, testing and upgrades of the software tools. The management structure of EURORAD was greatly supported by a Steering Committee composed of: Prof. A. Baert, Prof. G. Frija, Prof. R. Passariello, Prof. H. Ringertz.

Individual radiologists have been contributing to the database since 1998 through the EURORAD website (http://eurorad.org/).
The main feature of Eurorad is a careful peer-review aimed at ensuring the scientific quality of the published material. This was done initially thanks to the contribution of the Editor-in Chief (Prof. A. Baert), the Scientific Director (Prof. D. Caramella), and the first 13 Section Editors:

Starting in 2000 many agreements were signed between EURORAD and European National Radiological Societies as well as with European Subspecialty Radiological Societies in order to enhance the cooperation between the various radiological groups within Europe aimed at improving quality of the data base. Since 2000, EURORAD has an official ISSN number (1563-4086).

In March 2007 Albert Baert stepped down as editor in chief and was succeeded by Hans Bloem. At the same time Eurorad became an exclusive service to ESR members only. Many organizational and software changes were introduced over the years, the latest of which resulted in a greatly improved workflow allowing a timely review process that will be launched in January 2008. The new software allowing this was developed by Webges. Although many improvements for users of the new software will be apparent to the visitors in 2008, most of the improvements have an impact on the work of authors and reviewers. It greatly improves and accelerates the review process. One new feature for visitors is the category training cases, in which the entire data base can be accessed without having the diagnosis up front. From January 2008 onwards the publications department of ESR, which takes care of European Radiology, will become the office for Eurorad as well. Over the years many new reviewers and section editors contributed to Eurorad. Currently more than 100 radiologists participate in Eurorad. It is with the new infrastructure and the input of so many enthusiastic authors and reviewers that Eurorad is confident that it will continue to improve its service to the ESR membership in 2008.

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