Dear BAPTC&B Readers
First and foremost my profound apology to you all for having kept the site inactive for more than a year. It was a technical glitch that prevented the moderator to update the site. I mean it when I say because it's no problem for me to post latest news on plant biotechnology which in most cases will be a duplication of news that I post in another website, namely, Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (www.gnobb.org). Fortunately, the problem has just been solved and I hope to keep you all well posted about what is new and exciting in the biotechnology Field. Following are some welcome developments which augur well in the rapid promotion of this emerging science in Bangladesh.
Some of you might have noticed that at the bottom of the homepage, the number of visitors who surf BAPTC&B is recorded. The company called, "Sitemeter" provides free service to any webpage seeking its assistance. Clicking the number of visitors will open this site showing the number of surfers that visit the site DAILY. Not only that: on the left hand column under the title, "recent visitors", you will see a section on the third row called "BY WORLD MAP". Click it and the world map, that will appear on your screen, will show the countries from where the website was recently visited. Below the map you will see opposite to "recent visitors" the figure 100. Click it and you will be amazed to see how popular this website is. People from even Latin American countries such as Chile, Brazil, Caribbean, Mexico, Iran, Turkey, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, Thailand, USA, Greece, Spain, England, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Egypt, China, Korea surf our website. The fact that the journal is indexed by Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Elsevier Bibliographic Databases has made the website popular.
Believe us, if we put our heart and soul together toward its further improvement, not only its standard will go up but we may be able to increase our revenue and who knows that with the extra money, we may be able to raise the number of publications from two to three. Pakistan J Botany now publishes three issues a year. Many of us still argue: let the standard of this journal be enhanced to an international level and then we send our articles here, little realizing that their contribution will enrich this journal and make it internationally known by being included in the "Current Contents". Then the evaluating authority, who recommend us for various academic jobs will have no qualms of conscience to equate the articles published in PTC&B journal and those in outside journals.
