First year update as cardiovascular perfusion’s open access international journal - PMC

"With this issue, JECT has completed our very first year as an open-access journal! I am happy to report that the transition has been incredibly smooth and met all the expectations I laid out a couple of years ago when we were first contemplating these modernization initiatives after ending print copies. Beyond making all our published articles free to any reader worldwide, we sorely needed a new highly functional journal website, permanent links to each article, searchable digitized archives going back to the 60s and more. Having permanent DOI (Digital Object Identifier) links, which we never had before for example, makes it so much easier for our authors and readers to share JECT articles. We will of course continue making tweaks to the website as needed...."