STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy (VJGIEN) – an open access video journal providing scientists and clinicians with state-of-the-art visual information of gastrointestinal (GI) pathologies and step-by-step demonstrations. The journal is claimed to be the first of its kind in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy offers high-quality video demonstrations of endoscopic findings and procedures, presenting the work of gastrointestinal experts in a new and easy to comprehend format. Additional concise articles added to each video detail the procedures and the findings in a bullet point style. All content - videos and articles - are peer-reviewed.
The unique format of the Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy provides two elements - an Expert Video Encyclopedia as a clinical reference tool with systematic step-by-step demonstrations of common and rare GI pathologies and up-to-date endoscopic procedures; and a Scientific Video Journal for novel findings and techniques, demonstrating cutting edge endoscopic techniques and scientific results as well as clinical cases.
The video sequences in the Expert Video Encyclopedia section are of high educational impact and allow e.g. endoscopists to recognise a wide array of pathological findings, review existing techniques, and acquire new endoscopic techniques for implementation in their own clinical work. In the Scientific Video Journal section original research will be published reporting latest results in regard to endoscopic procedures used in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases.
The Expert Video Encyclopedia will be published in two special issues. Articles regarding Upper GI Tract are available by August 2013; articles regarding Lower GI Tract, by end of August 2013. The first articles of the Scientific Video Journal will be published in fall 2013.
Articles and videos are published open access in Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy and, therefore, freely available to readers on ScienceDirect.
