BMJ on the move again
01/07/2008 12:37
Starting July 2008 it gets on Continous Publication
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has long been considered as the Bible by the apostles of that sort of Copernican Revolution in Medicine called Evidence Based Medicine.
At the same time, the journal is a perennial spring of challenges and stimuli, so much so for those involved in medical literature. The very last one has been just announced by the current editorial: starting the first july issues theywill be publishing content continously on the web (www.bmj.com). So, BMJ will update several times a day! Once published, articles will then be selected for a subsequent print issue. The Editors claim this is a logical extention of what they have been doing for some time with online first publication of research. The benefits of a faster publication are now being extended to a larger context. Among the major medical journal BMJ is the first runner on this path. As it often happens.
(MC)