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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 83:e1-e4 (2001)
© 2001 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Symposium

Medical Scientific Publishing in the Twenty-first Century

I. The Challenge of Scientific Publishing in the New Millennium

James D. Heckman, MD

Peer Review and the Internet
In March, 2000, Steven King’s novella, Riding the Bullet, was published exclusively online by Simon and Schuster, Inc. The entire sixty-six-page work was edited, proofed, designed, and marketed within two weeks. Four hundred thousand copies were downloaded in forty-eight hours. The Christian Science Monitor reported on May 18, 2000, that, "...while other industries rush towards the Internet, the 1.2 trillion dollar health-care industry (of which we are a small part) inches cautiously forward."1 But we are moving forward. In an insightful article recently published in Science Editor, Conway stated, "The Journal industry is in the midst of a transition of unparalleled significance—from distribution in print to a finite number of paying customers, to dissemination electronically to an unlimited number of users, some of whom pay, some of whom do not."2 What does this mean for The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and other scientific and medical journals? It . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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