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Epidemiology Course on the Internet (46)
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Friends,
We are pleased the way the article came out with all of your comments.
In our submission to the BMJ we requested:
1. Authorship: We asked to have the authorship listed as "contributors"
with the acknowledgement of those contributing to the project on our
home page.
Richard Smith the head editor of the BMJ recently came out in favour of
this approach, but did not talk about the electronic presentation of
this.
2. Virtual Article: Tony Delamothe came out with the concept of the
virtual article in the Christmas edition of the BMJ. Here we are to see
if he really means it, as we requested that we update this article
every 6 months as the course is fluid, also, more and more people will
be contributors to the program. This brings up a whole set of issues
that no one has really thought through, that of referencing, what if
one references an article, and then it is changed. It is great to think
about fluid, and updated information, but there are no policies, at
least we are pushing the fold to see what the policies might be devel-
oped.
3. Peer Review: We asked Tony if this article is to be peer reviewed,
and if it were accepted for publication if the reviews would be put up
on the Net also, positive or negative so that we can start to have the
major journals open up the peer review process to everyone.
It will be fun to see if it is accepted. We got a large number of very
valuable comments on the paper. The BMJ has been great to us in the
past as we were the first ones to write about the information super-
highway and global health, the BMJ allowed us to be the first group to
include e-mail addresses, and in our last BMJ paper, we put as refer-
ences URLs instead of the journal references themselves. It would be
great fun if we could be the first electronic authorship, continuous
updated of a research communication, and putting the reviews on the
net.
We are approaching selected people to see if they want to write an ar-
ticle for publication in their discipline. Akira will be writing a pa-
per in the future based upon the approaches developed for peer review
with more analyses, Deb will discuss the course in the context of the
Internet and Epidemiology. We very much would like to publish as many
papers as possible in the next year or so.
Thanks for the help on the paper...have a happy holiday season...
ron, deb, akira
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