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African Health Sciences: The story of a young journal from Uganda
Report submitted to African Journal project meeting, Council for Science Editors, 1-7 May 2009
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
James K Tumwine, MD, PhDEditor in Chief, African Health SciencesMakerere University, College of Health ScienesKampala Uganda: [email protected]; [email protected]
Many thanks
• African Journals project• For support and sponsorship
• Colleagues on the project • Malawi, Ethiopia, Zambia, Ghana, Mali, Uganda
• Our “twin” partners
• Other supporters – ScholarOne, etc
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Introduction
The story
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African Health Sciences: structure
a. EIC and 1editor
b. Three editorial staff a. 1 paid
b. 2 voluntary
c. Editorial board (11 members.)
Many are involved in teaching, research, and patient care
Where HIV/AIDS, malaria and other infections
• With background of poverty
• Increases burden on– families– communities– health service
Manuscript submission and review
1. From January 2008, manuscript submission and the review process are online – Manuscript Central supported by ScholarOne
2. All manuscripts are reviewed by at least two reviewers;
1. one from Uganda and one from outside Uganda
Frequency of publication, dissemination, and print edition circulation
• AHS is a quarterly publication– March, June, September and December
Open access
1. Available both in print and electronic forms
2. Print copies by MERA through out Africa. a. 12500 copies per issue free of charge
3. Locally printed copies (500)
Online
• Indexed on Medline/PubMed
• Archived in PubMed Central
• African Journal’s Online
• BIOLINE and HINARI (free)
Some sites where you can access African Health Sciences
• www.bioline.org/ahs• www.mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mums.ahs• www.ajol.info• HINARI• PUBMED• PUBMED CENTRAL
Information on usage
• Print copy circulation 12500+500 = 13000 per issue
• Online access
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Overall business and financial structure
• Tenuous
• ? Charge authors
• Raising funds (local and abroad)
Writers workshops are extremely popular with our young scientists
• .
Our aim is not to become
The Lancet,
NEJM,
JAMA
EHPS
Annals or
BMJ
No
• We have clear priorities
To nurture this partnership
• Together with our partners
• To achieve a common goal
You see, this pot is used to keep lopinavir/ritonavir (kaletra) cool
• .
• as only <5% of Ugandans have electricity in their homes
To keep COOL effective medicines vs infections such as HIV, critical for the
survival of our people
Thinking
outside the box
has shaped and guided our strategy
for making health information
available to our scientists
Thank you
• Asante sana!