Netted!
The BJO has joined the increasing number of journals to have a ‘website’, a term for an information source onBJO matters which can be ‘accessed’ via the Internet. Actually, the BJO takes it place among the 30 or so specialist journals published through BMJ publications. Information that is available to ‘website visitors’ includes contents of the latest issue, an archive of contents, details of membership of the editorial board, instructions for authors, plus subscription details. In the future, article abstracts will be available but there are no plans as yet to publish the journal in full ‘online’. There are multiple reasons for this, one of which is lack of information on readership acceptability of an online publication as opposed to ‘hard copy’. Of course, equally important are problems such as how such publications would be peer …
