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"VETERINARY SCIENCES TOMORROW
is a refereed electronic 'Current Awareness' journal aimed at building a global animal health research community with a sense of identity and quality. It provides state-of-the-art reviews and publishes interpretation and opinion on actual issues of importance for animal health, encouraging interdisciplinary exchange.
As it stands, VETERINARY SCIENCES TOMORROW publishes regular columns entitled Editorials, News, Reviews (and other segments like Archives and administrative information). In its beginning in 2000, we ran four issues per year, and from 2002 onwards publication has been continuous. There is no restriction in length, since we would edit any text anyway, to adapt it to the 'Scientific American'-like style we want to achieve ("we" are Dr.Susanna Stout, a native English speaking scientific editor and Cambridge graduate, a part-time library and information technology assistance and myself). Illustrations are given special attention; we have graphic artists here that will convert a napkin sketch into an animated applet that talks! We continue to exploit the multimedia possibilities of the medium, if and when they are functional. Please look at the animated applets in
www.vetscite.org.
In addition, we have regular biomedical News updates, typically at 2-week intervals. Perhaps I should explain why this journal is different, to avoid any misunderstanding. The content of
VETERINARY SCIENCES TOMORROW is not primarily laid out for the veterinary practitioner - for him/her there are plenty of paper publications and websites around. This journal intends to fill another niche. The journal is aimed at the graduate student, the PhD supervisor, the postdoctoral fellow, the academic teacher, the veterinary scholar, the science journalist, the government researcher and the scientist. This is not necessarily a vet by training - it could be any biomedical research worker in a veterinary environment. In other words: while
VETERINARY SCIENCES TOMORROW does not want to discourage users of established knowledge, it is the forward-looking academic teaching and pathophysiology/animal well-being/veterinary public health research scene it specifically addresses. Recently, the interest of practicing veterinarians from specialist clinics has been noted, and clinical research will play an increasing role in our publication policy."
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Authors Corresponding address:
Prof.emerit. Dr.DDr.h.c. Marian C. Horzinek
Utrecht University, Veterinary Faculty
Editor-in-Chief, VETERINARY SCIENCES TOMORROW
+ an on-line current awareness journal + http://www.vetscite.org
Yalelaan 1, Androclusgebouw
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