Greeting Our 20th Year

Celebrating our 20th digital anniversary.

In 1997, 6 years after the World Wide Web became accessible to the public, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences launched its website, heralding our entry into the Internet age and the expeditious dissemination of our scientific content worldwide (see Infographic). Toward the end of the last millennium, we redesigned the website to improve user experience and rebranded the journal...

Greeting from the Chairman

An era, a remembrance, a greeting…

I do not wish to commemorate Professor Dagianti based solely on his scientific achievements. It would trivialize his memory. I wish you to remember him as a friend and mentor to all university cardiologists. I am old enough to remember him when he was full of strength and fighting spirit, when he used to discuss with his colleagues about the role of the newborn academic discipline of Cardiology...

Veteran satisfaction with RN voice-mail greeting.

Voice-mail communication is often used to convey information between the registered nurse (RN) and the Veteran. Using a pretest-posttest design, this study examined whether implementation of a standardized voice-mail greeting had an impact on Veteran satisfaction and the number of messages left on the RN voice-mail. Veterans were more satisfied and there was a significant decrease in RN voice-m...

Our recap for happy new year

To improve the understanding and communication of different kinds of contributor roles in research output, we decided to apply Contributor Roles Taxonomy, a renowned communitydeveloped open-standard taxonomy of contributions, to our journal starting from the first issue of 2017 (https://doi.org/10.5051/jpis.2017.47.1.1). Moreover, we have expressed our dedicated support for the National Library...