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Guest Editorial |
Introduction by the Honorary Editors
It is increasingly important for medical journals and more specifically for those focusing on best practice using health care technology to remain at the cutting edge of publishing and to provide such facilities for its authors and readers. In particular they must take advantage of all the electronic developments available in modern-day publishing. In this context we are very pleased to announce our new online publication service. In this Guest Editorial our Publisher, Ms Sherry Dixon, explains how BJR Advance – A new service of Publish Ahead of Print will work.
BJR Advance – A new service of Publish Ahead of Print
From April 2006, readers of The British Journal of Radiology (BJR) will find even more content online. BJR Advance, the journal's website for publishing papers electronically ahead of print will be launched at http://www.bjr.birjournals.org.
Since the BJR launched its online submission and peer review system in June 2004, the number of submissions has doubled, and the number of papers accepted for publication has increased. With the introduction of BJR Advance, the majority of these papers will be published online earlier than the printed version. Notwithstanding, we are also committed to ensuring that those articles accepted for publication in print will appear within a reasonable time scale.
BJR Advance will bring readers full papers, case reports, reviews, pictorial reviews and commentaries on Diagnostic Radiology, Radiotherapy and Oncology, Medical Physics, and Radiobiology several weeks in advance of the printed edition of BJR. The site will be updated bi-monthly with the latest research.
All BJR Advance manuscripts will undergo the complete peer-review process and are essentially the same version of the article that will appear in print. They will have been peer reviewed, revised by the authors, copyedited, typeset, and approved by the authors and BJR editors. There may be minor typographical errors, which will be corrected in the final print and online versions. However, there will be no substantive factual changes.
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) will be used as the Article IDs for all pre-press articles. The DOI is a specification and a system to support unique and permanent identifiers for content in an electronic environment, developed by the non-profit International DOI Foundation (http://www.doi.org). The DOIs will serve as "serial numbers" for articles, unambiguously identifying each one.
Like regular journal content, all BJR Advance articles will be deposited with the National Library of Medicine for inclusion in Medline and PubMed to ensure early and wide dissemination. In addition all pre-press articles will be fully searchable and references will be hyperlinked.
Authors and researchers should be assured that for citation purposes the DOI can replace the year, volume, and page numbers for a given article. For example,
This new section of BJR online will have a link from the journal homepage. A reader who clicks on this link will be able to view, download and cite articles published in advance of print – just as they do now for current and archive journal articles. Once a printed issue of BJR is mailed, articles in the printed issue that were published on BJR Advance will move to the regular BJR Online.
We hope that this addition to the BJR will significantly improve our ability to make our authors work more speedily available to the medical community, and enhance the process of submission, publication and using our journal.
S Dixon
Publisher
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  Editorial. Br. J. Radiol., July 1, 2006; 79(943): viii - viii. [Full Text] [PDF]
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