Medical information publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that it will begin publishing a medical journal on acupuncture, Acupuncture in Medicine, beginning January 2009. This will be the first complementary medicine title that the BMJ Group has published.
A quarterly publication, Acupuncture in Medicine aims to build the evidence base for acupuncture. It is currently self-published by the British Medical Acupuncture Society (BMAS).
The journal will be issued through the BMJ Group's Affinity programme on behalf of the Society from January 2009.
BMJ Group provides a range of products and services to doctors, other healthcare professionals, and patients. Through Affinity this includes a full publishing service from business development, through editorial support, to sales and marketing. As part of the service, the journal will be fully digitised and an archive of all its back issues will be made available online.
Acupuncture in Medicine was first published in 1982 and boasts a multidisciplinary international editorial board. The journal's editor in chief is Dr Adrian White, of the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, and its editor is Dr Mike Cummings, Medical Director of the BMAS.
