Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: We have joined a stable of 170 academic journals whose flagship psychiatric journal (Psychological Medicine) is one of the most respected in the world.As well as the potential gains in circulation and visibility that this new association will give us, it brings with it the enormous advantages of electronic publishing.International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) members and institutional subscribers can now gain access to International Psychogeriatrics online at www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_ipgwhere articles will be available as soon as they have been accepted and edited, well before the paper version of the issue in which they are to be published is due to appear.In addition, our entire corpus of back issues will soon be available online, so that any paper ever published in International Psychogeriatrics can be obtained with a few mouse clicks.IPA members and journal subscribers have been or will be sent a letter explaining how to gain access to the electronic version of the journal.All that will be needed in order to authorize full electronic access is a subscriber number, clearly displayed on the address package of the paper copy of the journal.Individuals who are not members and whose institutional libraries do not subscribe to International Psychogeriatrics should, of course, join IPA and lobby their libraries to subscribe.But even they can peruse issue contents and read abstracts online without charge and may download the full text of individual papers for a modest fee.I hope and expect that this important innovation will result in an increased awareness of our journal and a consequent rise in its Science Citations Index Impact Factor.To reflect the needs of modern publishing and the requirements of our changed publisher, our Instructions to Authors have been fully revised, so please read them before submitting a paper as they will be rigorously applied from July 1st 2004.They can be found at the journal website and in the back of this issue.In future they will be updated at the website whenever necessary and published annually in the first journal issue of each annual volume.The chief change reflects our attempt to be consistent with the policies of the World Association of Medical Editors with regard to possible conflicts of interest.Researchers cannot 1
Source: International Psychogeriatrics
Author: David Ames
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,500
OpenAlex ID: W2166819050