Abstract
JRSM Open is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access companion journal to JRSM. JRSM Open was launched in June 2010 and is rapidly developing into a leading international online resource of clinical papers, reviews and case reports on all aspects of improving patient care. As with other open access journals, authors are required to pay a small fee for published articles to cover the production costs and ensure that their article is freely available to readers. Articles published in JRSM Open are included in PubMed, PubMed Central and Google Scholar.
You can find JRSM Open on the Internet at http://jro.sagepub.com. To submit a clinical paper or case report to JRSM Open visit, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/shorts. For submission inquiries, contact Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of JRSM and JRSM Open, by email at kamran.abbasi@rsm.ac.uk.
Articles published in JRSM Open will also be mentioned in the print edition of JRSM. Here are the articles published in JRSM Open in August 2015:
Research
Trevor W Lambert, Fay Smith, and Michael J Goldacre. Making clinical academic careers more attractive: Views from questionnaire surveys of senior UK doctors. JRSM Open August 2015 6: 2054270415602644, doi:10.1177/2054270415602644
Case report
Rupal Morjaria, Marie Tsaloumas, and Peter Shah. An unusual presentation of patent foramen ovale. JRSM Open August 2015 6: 2054270415596320, doi:10.1177/2054270415596320