THE Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia's Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research (JPPR) will become an online-only publication next year, under major changes unveiled at the Society's Medicines Management 2016 conference in Perth yesterday.
The revamp will also see SHPA seek to have JPPR indexed in specialist academic references including Web of Science and Medline, the US National Library of Medicine bibliographic database.
"Achieving specialist academic listing will require that all articles are authoritative, peer-reviewed and complete," said SHPA president Professor Michael Dooley.
"The process of peer review is to ensure all research is well-designed and worthy of being shared, and that statistics are accurately presented," he said.
However the stringent academic requirements will mean existing "member service" aspects of JPPR will no longer be included, with Dooley saying SHPA will introduce a new publication to fill the void.
This, he said, would be a "high quality hybrid of scientific content and matters of practice, community, career and the Society.
"It will reflect the diversity of practice amongst our members and will support 'calls to action' on important issues," Dooley said, adding it would provide a publishing platform encouraging early career pharmacists to publish their work.
From 2017 the JPPR will also be published six times a year, helping authors by decreasing the time from submission to review and publication.
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