75 years of IUCr Journals: 1948 to 2023, an Editor-in-Chief's perspective.

On the 75th anniversary of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) and its journals, a brief history is presented, highlighting selected publications, based on citations and on other criteria of note for each journal. Emerging from the pandemic, prospects for the future are considered, especially in the context of the ongoing transformation to open-access research publication affecting all scientific research journals.