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More review content in TP 2003
Editorial
TRENDS in Parasitology
Vol.19 No.1 January 2003
1
More review content in TP 2003 Sally I. Hirst Editor; Trends in Parasitology (TP)
From January 2003, TP will focus exclusively on review-type articles and thus provide more content in the form of Reviews, Opinions, and Research Focus articles (formerly called Research News ) (see Box 1). This approach will allow us to concentrate on our core strengths and provide you with more of what you value most – authoritative reviews. Taking full advantage of the online environment, we will be publishing these articles on the TP Early Edition website BioMedNet (click on TP at http://reviews.bmn.com/journals) and the ‘Articles in Press’ site on ScienceDirect (http://www. sciencedirect.com) well in advance of publication in the print journal. This ‘continuous publication’ means that our articles can be published soon after acceptance.
Timely news and features articles It is important that our shorter, news articles (Journal Club and In Brief ) are published as rapidly as possible. Therefore, from January 2003, these articles will no longer appear in TP. Instead, we will be making the most of our online resource, BioMedNet, to provide a unique research service that will be updated daily (see ‘Choose BioMedNet for News and Features’ for information on how to access this service). From January 2003, the Commentaries from the TP Journal Club will be combined with those from the Journal Clubs of the other Trends Journals and with the Current Opinion Paper Alerts to form a new, online only service on BioMedNet via an expanded, searchable and customisable collection, called ‘Research Update’ (http://bmn.com/general/ researchupdate). This means that you will no longer be limited to the range of topics covered by the TP Journal Club,
but will have access to commentaries of recent papers across a diverse range of life sciences (such as those from Trends in Immunology, Trends in Microbiology, Current Opinions in Genetics and Development and Trends in Ecology and Evolution), and benefit from the increased functionality that this service will provide (e.g. e-mail alerting, at your request). To keep you up-to-date with other developments in parasitology, I am delighted that our regular ParaSite author, Janice Taverne, will be contributing to ‘News and Features’ on BioMedNet (http://news.bmn.com). These items are short, lively articles that provide a perspective on current issues and developments across the whole of life sciences. Both services will be providing continuous publication (within 48 hours of submission for Research Update articles) and access will be free to all for one week after publication! To access articles published for longer than a week, and to make full use of the archive, you will require a personal subscription to a Trends or Current Opinion journal, or have access via an institute that subscribes to BioMedNet Reviews or ScienceDirect.
Finally TP welcomes feedback and suggestions from all our readers and contributors, without whom there would be no journal! We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors, as well as the unseen (but greatly appreciated) ranks of peer reviewers, for their thoughtful input over the past two years. In particular, I would like to thank Theo Schetters and Sarah Hudson Keenihan for their contributions to the In Brief section, keeping us up to date with what is new and exciting in the world of parasitology.
Box 1. Finding your way round Trends in Parasitology (TP) 2003 Update This new section, at the front of TP, will contain Research Focus articles and Letters: Research Focus (formerly Research News ) articles discuss one to three recent papers from the primary literature. These articles are shorter than Reviews and Opinions, and the authors focus on the importance of the new papers, briefly setting them in context and explaining their significance for a wide audience. Letters usually discuss a recent article in TP or a matter of general interest. Letters should be no more than 500 words long and, where they discuss a TP article, the author of that article will normally be invited to reply.
Opinion Opinion articles present a personal, very authoritative, viewpoint of a field or research-related subject. They can cover timely controversial topics or debates, provide a new framework for, or interpretation of, an old problem or current issue, or speculate in depth on the implications of some recently published research or data.
Review TP Reviews are balanced accounts of newly emerging or rapidly progressing fields, providing a ‘snapshot’ of the field, a guide to the most relevant recent literature for parasitologists, and an indication of future research.
Now online only on BioMedNet… Research Update: the online Journal Club contains brief highlights written by scientists of key recent papers across the life sciences (made up from all the Journal Clubs and Paper Alerts of the Trends and Current Opinion journals) – http://bmn.com/general/ researchupdate. News and Features: our online Forum section – http://news.bmn. com – a daily update of news and features on policy, education, funding and research. Conference Reporter: live reports of meetings from around the globe – if you can’t be there, be online at http://news.bmn.com/ conferences
Corresponding author: Sally I. Hirst ([email protected]). http://trepar.trends.com 1471-4922/02/$ - see front matter q 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S1471-4922(02)00014-4
TRENDS in Parasitology
Vol.19 No.1 January 2003
1
More review content in TP 2003 Sally I. Hirst Editor; Trends in Parasitology (TP)
From January 2003, TP will focus exclusively on review-type articles and thus provide more content in the form of Reviews, Opinions, and Research Focus articles (formerly called Research News ) (see Box 1). This approach will allow us to concentrate on our core strengths and provide you with more of what you value most – authoritative reviews. Taking full advantage of the online environment, we will be publishing these articles on the TP Early Edition website BioMedNet (click on TP at http://reviews.bmn.com/journals) and the ‘Articles in Press’ site on ScienceDirect (http://www. sciencedirect.com) well in advance of publication in the print journal. This ‘continuous publication’ means that our articles can be published soon after acceptance.
Timely news and features articles It is important that our shorter, news articles (Journal Club and In Brief ) are published as rapidly as possible. Therefore, from January 2003, these articles will no longer appear in TP. Instead, we will be making the most of our online resource, BioMedNet, to provide a unique research service that will be updated daily (see ‘Choose BioMedNet for News and Features’ for information on how to access this service). From January 2003, the Commentaries from the TP Journal Club will be combined with those from the Journal Clubs of the other Trends Journals and with the Current Opinion Paper Alerts to form a new, online only service on BioMedNet via an expanded, searchable and customisable collection, called ‘Research Update’ (http://bmn.com/general/ researchupdate). This means that you will no longer be limited to the range of topics covered by the TP Journal Club,
but will have access to commentaries of recent papers across a diverse range of life sciences (such as those from Trends in Immunology, Trends in Microbiology, Current Opinions in Genetics and Development and Trends in Ecology and Evolution), and benefit from the increased functionality that this service will provide (e.g. e-mail alerting, at your request). To keep you up-to-date with other developments in parasitology, I am delighted that our regular ParaSite author, Janice Taverne, will be contributing to ‘News and Features’ on BioMedNet (http://news.bmn.com). These items are short, lively articles that provide a perspective on current issues and developments across the whole of life sciences. Both services will be providing continuous publication (within 48 hours of submission for Research Update articles) and access will be free to all for one week after publication! To access articles published for longer than a week, and to make full use of the archive, you will require a personal subscription to a Trends or Current Opinion journal, or have access via an institute that subscribes to BioMedNet Reviews or ScienceDirect.
Finally TP welcomes feedback and suggestions from all our readers and contributors, without whom there would be no journal! We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors, as well as the unseen (but greatly appreciated) ranks of peer reviewers, for their thoughtful input over the past two years. In particular, I would like to thank Theo Schetters and Sarah Hudson Keenihan for their contributions to the In Brief section, keeping us up to date with what is new and exciting in the world of parasitology.
Box 1. Finding your way round Trends in Parasitology (TP) 2003 Update This new section, at the front of TP, will contain Research Focus articles and Letters: Research Focus (formerly Research News ) articles discuss one to three recent papers from the primary literature. These articles are shorter than Reviews and Opinions, and the authors focus on the importance of the new papers, briefly setting them in context and explaining their significance for a wide audience. Letters usually discuss a recent article in TP or a matter of general interest. Letters should be no more than 500 words long and, where they discuss a TP article, the author of that article will normally be invited to reply.
Opinion Opinion articles present a personal, very authoritative, viewpoint of a field or research-related subject. They can cover timely controversial topics or debates, provide a new framework for, or interpretation of, an old problem or current issue, or speculate in depth on the implications of some recently published research or data.
Review TP Reviews are balanced accounts of newly emerging or rapidly progressing fields, providing a ‘snapshot’ of the field, a guide to the most relevant recent literature for parasitologists, and an indication of future research.
Now online only on BioMedNet… Research Update: the online Journal Club contains brief highlights written by scientists of key recent papers across the life sciences (made up from all the Journal Clubs and Paper Alerts of the Trends and Current Opinion journals) – http://bmn.com/general/ researchupdate. News and Features: our online Forum section – http://news.bmn. com – a daily update of news and features on policy, education, funding and research. Conference Reporter: live reports of meetings from around the globe – if you can’t be there, be online at http://news.bmn.com/ conferences
Corresponding author: Sally I. Hirst ([email protected]). http://trepar.trends.com 1471-4922/02/$ - see front matter q 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S1471-4922(02)00014-4