Publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced the launch of an open access journal, BMJ Open. The journal is exclusively dedicated to publishing general medical research.
The new title, scheduled for launch this autumn, will add to the publisher's growing stable of international titles.
Authors, whose work is accepted, will be asked to pay an affordable processing charge, but fees will be waived for those without the means to pay. The journal will provide rapid publication of research across a range of medical disciplines and therapeutic areas, including smaller or lower impact studies.
As well as publishing definitive articles, BMJ Open will publish stand alone study protocols and will make it easy for authors to share raw data either as additional electronic material or through direct links to data repositories. All articles will be subject to the BMJ Group’s standards of ethics and transparency, and will include clear statements of the studies' strengths and limitations.
Every submission will undergo open peer review, and research protocols and reviewers' comments will be published alongside accepted manuscripts.
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