Welcome To International Seminars In Surgical Oncology
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BioMed Central
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Editorial
Welcome To International Seminars In Surgical Oncology Gurpreet Singh-Ranger*1 and Mohamad Hussein2 Address: 1Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Level 3 St. James' Wing, St. George's Hospital and Medical School, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, SW17 0QT, UK and 2Myeloma Research Programme, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Email: Gurpreet Singh-Ranger* - [email protected]; Mohamad Hussein - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 23 April 2004 International Seminars in Surgical Oncology 2004, 1:1
Received: 29 January 2004 Accepted: 23 April 2004
This article is available from: http://www.issoonline.com/content/1/1/1 © 2004 Singh-Ranger and Hussein; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
Abstract This editorial marks the launch of a new online journal for surgical and medical oncology. The internet has produced a profound shift in the way in which clinicians, researchers and patients seek, interpret and utilise medical information and research. The launch of our journal comes at a time when these changes are in a rapid phase of development and consolidation.
"Global, instantaneous and unrestricted accessibility of high quality research" When we first conceived International Seminars in Surgical Oncology (ISSO), we held the strong belief that all those involved in the care of the cancer patient were entitled to a permanently available online resource with these characteristics. With our publishers BioMed Central, this vision has now become a reality. We believe that the internet has already induced a paradigm shift in the way in which clinicians and patients access, interpret and utilise medical information. The creation of our online journal, specifically directed at all those involved in the care of the cancer patient, epitomises and will build upon these recent changes. International Seminars in Surgical Oncology (ISSO) aims to provide a worldwide forum for those involved in cancer research, surgery, medical treatment and palliation. Although termed "ISSO", our journal aims to involve medical oncologists and cancer surgeons. With this in mind, we devised the representation of the journal to be by editors-in-chief from each of these disciplines. International Seminars in Surgical Oncology (ISSO) has an "Open Access" publication policy, which represents a fun-
damental change in the way articles are published. Open Access normally applies only to research articles, but ISSO has taken this further by making all its content Open Access, meaning that: • All articles become freely and universally accessible online – an author's work can be read by anyone visiting the journal site at no cost. • Authors hold copyright for their own work, and grant anyone the right to reproduce and disseminate the article, provided it is correctly cit
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