A Welcome to Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID)

Welcome to Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID), the new open-access journal of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (hivma). As with the existing IDSA journals Clinical Infectious Diseases and The Journal of Infectious Diseases, OFID will be published by Oxford University Press (OUP). As noted previously, OFID will provide a venue for the rapid publication of clinical, translational, and basic research for all aspects of Infectious Diseases (ID), with a focus on studies that have the potential to improve patient care. All papers will be peer-reviewed and, once accepted, will be immediately available for anyone to read at no cost. Papers published in OFID will be indexed in PubMed Central. We welcome direct submissions to OFID via http://www.edmgr.com/ofid and will also consider certain papers submitted to Clinical Infectious Diseases or The Journal of Infectious Diseases, provided the contributing authors agree to allow the transfer. There will be a special track for Fellows of IDSA (FIDSA) for rapid review, and members of IDSA and hivma will receive discounts on articleprocessing fees. In addition to original research studies and review articles, we also are eager to feature several other ID-related pieces, including the following: