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The article discusses press commentary on the subject of European integration in newspapers published in Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s, focusing on the interplay between national stereotypes and characteristics in shaping views of the respective neighboring European countries and of the process of postwar European reconciliation. The author understands the opinion pieces and editorials he analyzes as windows onto the broader political cultures in the three countries. Events examined in detail include the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC/EGKS), the failed establishment of the European Defense Community (EDC/EVG), and the Treaties of Rome that created the European Economic Community (EEC/EWG).

In our Notae legentis on papyri and Greek texts from non-Egyptian areas in the Byzantine period, we have shown contemporary editorial errors, also Byzantine misinterpretations documented at this period. We also want to show corrections, new interpretations and suggestions concerning Latin and Greek concepts which can increase our knowledge of vocabulary in classical philology, Byzantinism, papyrology and last but not least coptology. Mistakes which arose from copying and etymological obscurities are explained. Editorial mistakes and lexicographical rarities are also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents comments from the editor on the theme of the issue, which is research about the emigration and expulsion of scientists and academics from fascist Europe and other lands under dictatorship in the 1930s.

With the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen and the EU eContentplus funded DISCOVERY project as its touch stones, this article explores changed conditions and possibilities for digital editorial work, research and publishing in the humanities. In this article, emphasis is put on the dynamic and interactive aspects of digital editing, as well as the new opportunities which semantic web thinking and technology offer. Markup / text encoding is here considered key for both, as well as being crucial for adequately exploiting the possibilities offered by the digital turn in the humanities and higher education more generally. Additionally, the article promotes the strengthening and further development of open access and collaborative research models as beneficial for the humanities. The DISCOVERY project is described in some detail: Its importance lies in bringing the above dimensions together by aiming at giving open, multilingual access to a substantial digital resource of European philosophy sources, including multimedia, while at the same time being open for user specific filtering, semantic web processing and collaborative researching and learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's views on the relation between election, electoral research and democracy with reference to a textbook by Juergen W. Falter and Harald Schoen related to the same. According to the author, the election should serve to decide the competitive fight of the candidates respectively parties on the protection of the civilians.

The article presents the author's views on radical democracy in Chiapas, Mexico, with reference to a meeting against neoliberalisms held during July-August 1996. In this meeting, organized by Zapatistas, 5000 people from 42 countries gathered together to discuss the neo-liberal course of economics. Indigenous farmers, who designate themselves as Zapatistas, demanded land and autonomy for the indigenous folk and a democratization of Mexico.

The article presents two of the editors' reflections on the adjective "peripheral" and its relation to such notions as marginality, boundary, a geometrically specific location, and the surface of a sphere versus the term's opposition to centrality and implication of distance from the center and its attraction. Also mulled upon is the use of "peripheral" as it is associated with computers and social integration, but also stressed is the use of the term in discussing economically underdeveloped areas.

The article announces the renaming of the DGI information science society to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Information und Wissen as discussed at an April 22, 2013 conference . The author provides a link to an online editorial on the need for the name change at http://blog.dgi-info.de/ die-agile-dgi-ein-club-fur-informationsphilosophen-undpragmatiker/ and discusses the role of the internet in the transmission of knowledge.

This author gives his opinion on diagnostic and medical practices and preventive medicine in Germany. He discusses several topics such as the medical progress in the field of congenital metabolic diseases and endocrinopathy, how foreign countries look up to the comprehensive system for diagnosing diseases early throughout Germany and Germany's socialized health insurance. He also comments on the decision of a German court ruling in 1968 about doctors drawing blood from infants.

This article features an editorial about the need for further documentation when sociologists present their papers. The authors write that the use of expert interviews to support data should be kept to a minimum, and that the publishers have decided to make all empirical data available for comments, and therefore the data must either appear in the article or be made otherwise available.

This article presents a note from the editors about the "Zeitschrift für Soziologie. " The authors write that the journal had switched publishers six months prior to this issue. The authors also note changes to the editorial staff and publishing regulations. The issuers of the journal approached the board for the German Society for Sociology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie) about the lack of quality in submissions for sociological publications.

This article presents a discussion of what an editorial means in the German sense, which is to say, a preface. The author writes that an editorial can present explanations from the editorial board, describe the chosen topic for the particular issue and can help present the journal for judgment to a reader. The author also jokes that the editorial can function on a meta-level and provide insight as to what an editorial should do.

The author presents his views on the development of West German social policy in the 20th century. Topics addressed include national security, social security, and public welfare. A critical evaluation is given of the human drive to establish personal and community security, and the relations between individual freedom and social responsibility are discussed.

The article discusses the controversial defeat by the Social Democratic Party of a proposal for a Social Student Commission. The Commission was to be composed of independent experts as in British Royal Commissions. Criticism of the legislative lost opportunity are cited from West German newspaper editorials.

This article presents a note from the editors of the "Zeitschrift für Soziologie." The authors state that the goal is to publish manuscripts according to a theory neutral practice, and that in order to maintain that goal in a professional manner, the members of the advisory board have come up with guidelines for publication. Manuscripts will also be provided with intellectual criticism, from other sociologists.

A note from the editorship of the periodical is presented which gives context to the two subsequent articles. First to be presented is Dr. Georg Heubeck's critique of an article in the November 1967 issue by Dr. Ludwig Preller titled "Nicht Last, sondern Impuls — Profil einer sozialpolitischen Konzeption." Subsequently, Preller responds to Heubeck's remarks.