TY - JOUR AU - Doyle, D. AB - Correspondence example of how new information technology can be success- fully applied to anaesthesia education. Furthermore, this type of periodical illustrates how current publishing standards can To the Editor: be applied to electronic publishing, while maintaining acade- Duffy and Miller ~ raise important issues about scientific pub- mic integrity and circumventing some of the problems associ- lishing via the Internet. As the founder, with Keith J. Ruskin, ated with publishing on the Internet. Currently, however, of the first anaesthesia journal distributed (since April 1994) "Educational Synopses in Anesthesia and Critical Care via the Internet, 2 1 have some comments that may be pertinent. Medicine" is unique, as the majority of medical information It is the policy of Educational Synopses in Anesthesiology and available electronically is neither peer-reviewed nor moderat- Critical Medicine that all articles go through a peer review ed in any way. process before publication, and that ordinarily only original A recent editorial in the "New England Journal tff material be accepted for publication (exceptions may be made, Medicine" raises some hnportant concerns that are currently for example, for reprinted historical articles). shared amongst print editors, t h~ this editorial, the view is In response to Duffy and TI - Electronic publishing JF - Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie DO - 10.1007/BF03011780 DA - 2008-12-13 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/electronic-publishing-AcGe008oFA SP - 640 EP - 640 VL - 43 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -