Making research papers in the BMJ more accessible

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7362.456

BMJ 2002;325:456 ( 31 August )

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Making research papers in the BMJ more accessible

We're developing ELPS and will soon publish papers shortly after acceptance

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In 1999 the BMJ started using a process called ELPS (electronic long, paper short) to publish shorter, more reader friendlyversions of original research papers in the print journal.¹Because readability is just as important on the web, these shorterpapers are also published on bmj.com along with their originallonger versions. To make this clear to readers of bmj.com we markthe papers "abridged text" and "full text." Like everything elseon bmj.com, both versions of each research paper are freely accessibleto everyone. The long versions are indexed for Medline, and arepublished in full on PubMed Central. Readers and authors seempleased with ELPS so far, and we are continuing to explore newways to serve theirneeds.

In our current ELPS process the long version of the paper, after acceptance, is edited according to BMJ style. We aim to eliminatelanguage ambiguities and correct numerical errors not . . . [Full text of this article]

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