Abstract
The death of biomedical journals is perhaps premature. Electronic publication is currently being used increasingly in parallel to the traditional paper format [2]. The importance of the story of Rip Van Winkle was not that he slept for 20 years, but that he slept through a revolution. As surgeons, and particularly as editors, we must not sleep through this revolution and be more than marginally involved with these changes. Editors and journals must become more sensitive of and responsive to this rapidly evolving journalistic culture. In recent years our lexicon has become saturated with concepts such as the Inglefinger rule, the fair use doctrine and safe harbor guidelines. The electronic news media (ENM) have made us more acutely aware of the importance of issues surrounding intellectual property.
“If it has been in print and specially if it has been peer reviewed, it shouldn’t be in print again.”
Donald Kennedy, PhD [1]
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Organ, C.H. et al. (2001). Surgical Publishing in the Twenty-First Century. In: Controversies in Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56777-3_1
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