Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it will be publishing a new psychiatry journal - Asia-Pacific Psychiatry. The journal will focus on the Asia and Pacific Rim region, and will be the official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists.
Asia-Pacific Psychiatry will seek to enable psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to share their research, educational programmes, and clinical experience with a larger international readership. As a venue for high-quality research for and from the region, the journal will publish peer-reviewed articles, reviews and findings that highlight best practices and the diversity in psychiatric treatment and outcomes related to social, ethnic, cultural, and economic differences of the region.
In addition, the journal will offer a unique range of content that will enable psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in the region to share their research, educational programmes and clinical experience with a larger international readership. Besides focusing on research outputs within countries from Asia and the Pacific Rim, it will also include images, videos, young psychiatrists' corners, meeting reports, a clinical case conference, and contextual commentaries.
Asia-Pacific Psychiatry will be launched at the annual 13th Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists Scientific Meeting to be held from October 30 - November 2, in Tokyo. Starting in summer 2009, the journal will publish four issues a year, both in print and online at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.
