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Continuous publications and free access are the two most important things for a journal
- Dr. Satheesha Nayak (28 June 2008)
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Congratulations - Continuous Publication
- Vipin Zamvar, EH16 4SU (28 June 2008)
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Continuous publication: The need of the hour
- Monica Gupta, Manish Gupta (30 June 2008)
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RSS feeds?
- Hilary Curtis (30 July 2008)
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Dr. Satheesha Nayak, Associate Professor of Anatomy Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal Campus) Madhav Nagar, Manipal. Karnataka State, INDIA.
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Dear Editor, It is really a good idea to publish articles online continuously than publishing them all at once. It will not only help the readers but also the authors. Recently many journals have started publishing articles online as soon as they are accepted and copyedited. In several institutions, there are research incentives such and promotions, sponsorships for attending international conferences, awards or cash paid for publishing the papers in good journals. If the good reputed journals take a long time to publish good articles, the researchers have to wait for a long time for their promotions in the institutions and may lose the opportunity to get the awards or to attend international conferences. Another important feature is that the budding researchers will be really benefited by the rapid publications. They can get a lot of references for publishing their data when the journals publish the articles rapidly. Lastly, one request to BMJ is to make the online version available to all readers without any subscription fee as it was before one year. Hoping to get a chance to read all BMJ articles online as and when they get published. Competing interests: None declared |
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Vipin Zamvar, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, EH16 4SU
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Congratulations to the BMJ for adopting this form of publication. One journal that has already been following this practice is the "Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery". This journal is available online at www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org. Competing interests: None declared |
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Monica Gupta, MD, DNB Medicine, Senior Lecturer Government Medical College and HospitalSec 32-B, Chandigarh- 160030, India, Manish Gupta
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Dear Editors The decision of the BMJ to publish content continuously on bmj.com would be welcome from the medical fraternity all over the world. Besides a quick opportunity to publish data, it would also permit the health professionals to share their work and contributions on line first on a common web platform constantly. This approach would not only provide the medical community with a continuous inflow of information but also an arena to discuss topics of interest on line with their peers around the globe. It is the need of the hour to have uninterrupted flow of medical information considering the medical facts which are ever changing. With the boom in the telecommunication network and the futility of reading/ responding to the print versions it has been aptly realized by the net savvy physicians to resort to the net for queries, guidelines and facts. Also as appropriately mentioned by Dr. Nayak this fresh addition would go a long way in helping young authors to enhance their publication records for academic benefits and research incentives. The idea of one permanent citation for each article with an e-locator is unique and we hope that it would be widely reciprocated by the authors and other peer reviewed journals. We thus highly appreciate and congratulate the BMJ for its pioneering efforts to be the first major medical journal to move to continuous publication. Competing interests: None declared |
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Hilary Curtis, Freelance/Clinical audit & healht policy NW6 7HF
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I support this change but could we please have a proper weekly "Current issue" RSS (really simple syndication) feed that links to every article published over a fixed 7 day period (eg from midnight each Friday to the following one)?
Continuous publication is a great way of getting stuff out quickly but it's not so good for seeing everything and not missing something that might be of interest. Since you've moved to continuous publication I've been unable to maintain my usual habit of skimming the whole BMJ via RSS once a week. I know there are table of contents pages but they're a lot less user-friendly than RSS.
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