Open Heart: BMJ Announces a New Online Open-Access Cardiology Journal -- Angioplasty.Org

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-09-24

Summary:

"This October, Open Heart, a new online only peer-reviewed cardiology journal will launch its initial website, with publication of its first round of articles targeted for early 2014. Announced at the recent European Society of Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam, Open Heart is a sister publication to Heart and the newest addition to the BMJ family, which is publishing it in partnership with the British Cardiovascular Society ... Angioplasty.Org recently spoke with Editor-in-Chief Pascal Meier, MD, consultant interventional cardiologist at The Heart Hospital, UCLH, London, and Assistant Adjunct Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale Medical School, about this new endeavor and whether there is a need for another cardiology journal. Dr. Meier explained that Open Heart will be fundamentally different from the current print-based journals: it will be online only, which means there will be no limitation as to the number of articles that can be published. As an Associate Editor of BMJ's Heart, Meier saw a number of good quality articles turned down for publication, primarily because there just wasn't enough space in the print journal. With the amount of original research growing exponentially, he sees Open Heart as a way to get new findings directly to a wide audience with minimum turn-around time. The concept is somewhat similar to the online PLOS Medicine, but devoted entirely to the field of cardiology ... The new journal promises to be "open" in many ways: open access (free access for all readers), open peer review (unblinded peer review) and open data (data sharing). Meier emphasized that he wants the journal to be as transparent as possible to ensure maximum impact on research progress and patient care ..."

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http://www.ptca.org/news/2013/0922_BMJ.html

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oa.medicine oa.new oa.data oa.gold oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.peer_review oa.bmj oa.journals

Date tagged:

09/24/2013, 09:38

Date published:

09/24/2013, 05:38