TY - JOUR T1 - <em>ERJ</em> 30 years: establishment and early years JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.00649-2018 VL - 51 IS - 5 SP - 1800649 AU - Erik Berglund Y1 - 2018/05/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/51/5/1800649.abstract N2 - During the 1960s and 1970s, we had in Europe an abundance of respiratory journals. They were national, or sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, or produced by private publishing companies. At the time, they could not compete with the journals published in North America.Three respiratory journals in Europe were merged in two steps to form the ERJ http://ow.ly/qaqk30jxg0Q ER -