While you wait for the Spring issue and supplement of The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics to arrive in your (virtual or literal) mailbox, you can get a sneak preview of many of the articles via JLME FirstView, our new prepublication area. As of this morning, readers can preview the full final text of close to 40 of the upcoming 60 articles in the special issue “Research Integrity and Misconduct” and the symposium “10 Years of Global Health Law.”
Accelerating the Process from Submission to Publication
Since October, the Journal has been going through significant changes in our publication process in order to get your crucial research and commentaries to readers much more quickly. These FirstView articles are the initial result. In an environment where health law is literally changing daily, we can no longer wait a year or more before your colleagues can read your important thoughts on the current medicolegal environment. By the end of the year (and likely well before), we anticipate that articles will go from acceptance to prepublication in a few weeks.
We have also recruited a dedicated and expert editorial board to ensure that articles receive thoughtful and timely peer review. This has contributed to an overall reduction in the time articles spend in peer review by more than half over the last year; we expect this time to continue to improve over the next six months.
Agreements For Fee-Free Gold Open Access
If the corresponding author of an article is affiliated with any of the over 2,500 institutions that Cambridge University Press has an agreement with, then there is no fee for Gold open access. Because of these agreements, the percentage of open access articles in the Journal is increasing with each issue.
Submit Your Article Today!
Now more than ever, the world needs to read your research, your analysis, and your solutions for a path forward. Submit your article through our online submission portal. If you have a proposal for a symposium or article collection, contact our Editor in Chief Aaron Kesselheim to discuss your ideas. We want to read what you have to say.
