Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: Open access in 2008

Dudley J Pennell

Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2008, 10:1doi:10.1186/1532-429X-10-1


Published:	15 January 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

This is the first article in the open access Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance which will be published exclusively on-line from January 2008 and available on http://www.JCMR-online.com webcite [1]. We have now made the transition from the traditional publication system and look forward to the advantages of the internet era. This change has been made possible by a large number of people, and in particular I would like to thank the Publications Committee and Board of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and the journal editorial team, who have all given their full support. I have written about this change in the closing editorials of the 2007 paper-based issues with our previous publisher [2], but I feel it is important to once again summarise the reasons for the change and the new procedures, so that they are firmly recorded at the outset of this new venture with our new publisher BioMed Central (BMC). The full range of BMC open access journals can be viewed online http://www.biomedcentral.com webcite [3].