Note from the Editors and Prepublication Open Review Information

Prepublication histories and open peer review at the BMJ.

Over the past 15 years peer reviewers for The BMJ have shown, by signing their reviews and declaring to authors and editors any relevant competing interests, that they are unafraid of transparent scientific discourse. Now we are opening up our process to make our reviewers’ role as authors’ critical friends visible to all. From this autumn on thebmj.com all research articles, and certain schola...

Note from the editors

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

A Note From the Editors

Note from the Editors: Toxicogenomics Update

The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a welcomed cooperative in an era when we are becoming " data rich but knowledge poor. " With the proliferation of satellite platforms, each monitoring different characteristics of the earth's surface and atmosphere at varying resolutions, the task of using a combination of satellite databases has been intimidating and often not possible ...