The articles were examined following the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines with regard to suspected redundant publication. The editors of the European Biophysics Journal recognize the partial re-use of text taken from older publications of the same authors or publications that were submitted in parallel to the one in question. Moreover, Figs. 2, 3, and 4a, b of the article have been partially re-used from article (2) listed above (DOI 10.1021/jp0536450). However, it is felt that the re-use is not central to the validity of the conclusions and interpretations drawn from the data. It was decided to publish this notice to alert readers to this conclusion. This notice clarifies the relationship between Study of the dynamical properties of water in disaccharide solutions, authored by S Magazu, F Migliardo, MTF Telling, Eur Biophys J. 2007. DOI 10.1007/s00249-006-0108-0, and the following articles: