Transactions Costs and Readership: An “Open” Letter to Our Readers

Journal of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery – An ‘Open’ Letter to Our Authors and Readers

The Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery is at a significant threshold. As a mature, respected, and long-lived entity it has grown from the scientific publication of a small national society (Canadian Journal of Otolaryngology, 1971) to a major international journal (Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, 2008). The process of development has resulted in the evolution of the Jo...

An open letter to our readers on the use of antibodies.

The use of immunohistochemistry has become ubiquitous in neuroscience. A large majority of papers now published in The Journal of Comparative Neurology use im-munohistochemistry, and some papers may employ a battery of ten or more antibodies to examine issues of colocalization or cell typing. This pattern has resulted in a flood of new information.. . .but also a flood of misinfor-mation. The J...

To our readers: an experiment in education.

IN the lead article of the first issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, 1 the respiratory physiologist Howard W. Haggard noted that medical progress requires research and dissemination of that research to medical practitioners and the public. Last month I wrote to our authors, who provide the research basis for this progress, regarding how we intend to better serve them. The purpose of this editorial is to d...

To Our Readers

All insect pest control programmes currently releasing sterile insects use radioisotope irradiators using either 60 Cobalt or 137 Caesium for gamma sterilization. This technology has proven to be extremely reliable for this purpose. However, the current situation regarding the growing complexities of the transboundary shipment of radioiso-topes and the fear of terrorism (in particular of a 'dir...

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