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More review content in 2003
Editorial
TRENDS in Plant Science
Vol.8 No.1 January 2003
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More review content in 2003 Susanne Brink Happy New Year to all our readers and welcome to the new look of Trends in Plant Science. From January 2003, Trends in Plant Science will focus exclusively on reviewtype articles and provide more content in the form of Reviews, Opinions and Research Focus articles (formerly called Research News) – see (Box 1). This 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 publish articles on the Trends in Plant Science ‘Early Edition’ site on BioMedNet (click on Trends in Plant Science at reviews.bmn.com/journals) and the ‘Articles in Press’ site on ScienceDirect (sciencedirect.com) well in advance of publication in the print journal.
Timely news and feature articles on BioMedNet It is important that our news articles (Journal Club and In Brief) are published rapidly. So from January 2003, these sections will no longer appear in Trends in Plant Science. Instead, we will be making the most of our online resource, BioMedNet, to provide a unique service that will be updated daily (see the inside front cover for information on how to access this feature). From January 2003, the Trends in Plant Science
Journal Club will be combined with those of the other Trends journals and the Paper Alerts from the Current Opinion journals, to form a new searchable online service on BioMedNet called ‘Research Update’ (bmn.com/general/researchupdate). This means that you will have access to commentary on recent papers across a broader range of life sciences. This online service can be customized, and will even alert you by e-mail (at your request) when a selected topic is covered. We will also be able to keep you more up to date with relevant news about policy, education, funding and other current issues across the life sciences on the ‘News and Features’ service of BioMedNet (news.bmn.com). We are delighted that our regular In Brief authors, Nigel Chaffey and Trevor Stokes, will be contributing articles to this. Both services will provide rapid online publication (within a couple of days of submission for Research Update articles), and access will be free for a week after publication. To access articles that have been published for more than a week, 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. We welcome your feedback on any aspects of the journal or our online services, please address comments to plants@ current-trends.com.
Box 1. Finding your way round Trends in Plant Science 2003 Update This new section, at the front of Trends in Plant Science, will contain Research Focus articles, as well as Letters: † Research Focus (formerly Research News) articles discuss recent papers from the primary literature. These articles are shorter than Reviews or 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 Trends in Plant Science or, very occasionally, a matter of general interest. Letters should be no more than 400 words long and, where they discuss a Trends in Plant Science article, the author of that article will normally be invited to reply.
Opinion Opinion articles present a personal viewpoint of a field or researchrelated subject. They can cover timely controversial topics or debates, provide a new interpretation of an old problem or current issue, or speculate in depth on the implications of some recently published research or data.
Review Trends in Plant Science reviews are balanced accounts of newly emerging or rapidly progressing fields, providing a guide to the most relevant recent literature and an indication of future research.
Online only on BioMedNet… † Research Update: the online Journal Club will contain 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) – to start in January 2003; bmn.com/ general/researchupdate † News and Features: our online Forum section – news.bmn.com – a daily update of news and features covering policy, education, funding and research † Conference Reporter: live reports of meetings from around the globe – if you can’t be there, be online at news.bmn.com/conferences
Corresponding author: Susanne Brink ([email protected]). http://plants.trends.com 1360-1385/02/$ - see front matter q 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S1360-1385(02)00003-1
TRENDS in Plant Science
Vol.8 No.1 January 2003
1
More review content in 2003 Susanne Brink Happy New Year to all our readers and welcome to the new look of Trends in Plant Science. From January 2003, Trends in Plant Science will focus exclusively on reviewtype articles and provide more content in the form of Reviews, Opinions and Research Focus articles (formerly called Research News) – see (Box 1). This 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 publish articles on the Trends in Plant Science ‘Early Edition’ site on BioMedNet (click on Trends in Plant Science at reviews.bmn.com/journals) and the ‘Articles in Press’ site on ScienceDirect (sciencedirect.com) well in advance of publication in the print journal.
Timely news and feature articles on BioMedNet It is important that our news articles (Journal Club and In Brief) are published rapidly. So from January 2003, these sections will no longer appear in Trends in Plant Science. Instead, we will be making the most of our online resource, BioMedNet, to provide a unique service that will be updated daily (see the inside front cover for information on how to access this feature). From January 2003, the Trends in Plant Science
Journal Club will be combined with those of the other Trends journals and the Paper Alerts from the Current Opinion journals, to form a new searchable online service on BioMedNet called ‘Research Update’ (bmn.com/general/researchupdate). This means that you will have access to commentary on recent papers across a broader range of life sciences. This online service can be customized, and will even alert you by e-mail (at your request) when a selected topic is covered. We will also be able to keep you more up to date with relevant news about policy, education, funding and other current issues across the life sciences on the ‘News and Features’ service of BioMedNet (news.bmn.com). We are delighted that our regular In Brief authors, Nigel Chaffey and Trevor Stokes, will be contributing articles to this. Both services will provide rapid online publication (within a couple of days of submission for Research Update articles), and access will be free for a week after publication. To access articles that have been published for more than a week, 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. We welcome your feedback on any aspects of the journal or our online services, please address comments to plants@ current-trends.com.
Box 1. Finding your way round Trends in Plant Science 2003 Update This new section, at the front of Trends in Plant Science, will contain Research Focus articles, as well as Letters: † Research Focus (formerly Research News) articles discuss recent papers from the primary literature. These articles are shorter than Reviews or 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 Trends in Plant Science or, very occasionally, a matter of general interest. Letters should be no more than 400 words long and, where they discuss a Trends in Plant Science article, the author of that article will normally be invited to reply.
Opinion Opinion articles present a personal viewpoint of a field or researchrelated subject. They can cover timely controversial topics or debates, provide a new interpretation of an old problem or current issue, or speculate in depth on the implications of some recently published research or data.
Review Trends in Plant Science reviews are balanced accounts of newly emerging or rapidly progressing fields, providing a guide to the most relevant recent literature and an indication of future research.
Online only on BioMedNet… † Research Update: the online Journal Club will contain 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) – to start in January 2003; bmn.com/ general/researchupdate † News and Features: our online Forum section – news.bmn.com – a daily update of news and features covering policy, education, funding and research † Conference Reporter: live reports of meetings from around the globe – if you can’t be there, be online at news.bmn.com/conferences
Corresponding author: Susanne Brink ([email protected]). http://plants.trends.com 1360-1385/02/$ - see front matter q 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S1360-1385(02)00003-1