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IDSA to launch new open access journal
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The Infectious Diseases Society of America is launching a new peer-reviewed, open access online journal early in 2014 and has named Paul Sax, MD, as the editor-in-chief.
The journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, will be published by Oxford University Press. It will be a global forum for rapid publication of clinical, translational and basic research findings. It will publish articles directly submitted, as well as articles cascaded from two other IDSA publications, Clinical Infectious Diseases and The Journal of Infectious Diseases. There will also be articles in a special track for IDSA Fellows.
Paul Sax
Sax is the clinical director in the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has served as editor-in-chief of Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care, which is published by the Massachusetts Medical Society and The New England Journal of Medicine Group. He also maintains a blog called, “HIV and ID Observations.”
“This new journal must take advantage of the fact that an ever-growing proportion of clinicians and researchers — especially younger clinicians and researchers — get virtually all of their medical information from a screen, not a printed issue or textbook,” Sax said in a press release. “The online-publication model offers almost limitless opportunities for innovation, which should fulfill the goal of increasing engagement with contributors and readers.”
Members of the IDSA and the HIV Medicine Association will receive discounts on article-processing fees.