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Today the first issue of the 22nd volume of GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung - German Journal for Medical Education (GMS Z Med Ausbild;
http://www.egms.de/en/journals/zma/index.htm) is online, the journal of the Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA), Deutsche Sektion der European Association for Medical Education e.V. (
http://www.gesellschaft-medizinische-ausbildung.org). For the first time, an electronic German language journal with text, graph, image and voice documents is launched. A global, open-access forum for information and communication is now available using the most advanced tools of the digital world to advance medical graduate and postgraduate education. This journal continues the tradition of German medical education publishing initiated by Dietrich Habeck in 1984 with the periodical "Medizinische Ausbildung" and later with the supplement "Medizinische Ausbildung" of the journal "Das Gesundheitswesen" by Florian Eitel beetween 1998 and 2004. The joint venture with the portal "German Medical Science (GMS)" and its founders "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wissenschaftlicher Medizinischer Fachgesellschaften (AWMF)", "Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information (DIMDI)" und "Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED)" as publisher brings to the GMA (a member society of AWMF) partnership with the largest medical electronic data host in Europe and the second largest medical library worldwide. The cooperation with DIMDI opens almost unlimited and sustained storage space and search functions. GMS Z Med Ausbild also will be immediately indexed in MEDLINE and will soon generate an impact factor by frequent citations. There will also be a print edition. Papers in English are welcome.
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<p>Every author now has the opportunity to upload his manuscript directly into the Manuscript Operating System via the button "Submit a paper / Artikel einreichen" on the right hand navigation menu of gms (<a href="http://www.egms.de">www.egms.de</a>). The editorial process as well as the complete review process can then be done online in MOPS. All registered users have access to MOPS via the "Login" button, which can also be found on the right hand navigation menu on the gms pages.</p>
With over 156,000 hits in November 2004, gms has finally established itself in the premier group of german scientific open access e-journals.
The
68th Annual Conference of the German Traumatology Society will take place from 19th - 22th of October 2004 together with the
90th Conference of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC 21th - 23rd of October 2004) and the
45th Conference of the Professional Association of Orthopaedic Specialists (BVO 21th - 23rd of October 2004) in the ICC Berlin. The contributions will be published via gms online under the rubric "Meetings".
The
121st Congress of the German Society for Surgery which took place from 27 to 30 April 2004 in Berlin under the guidance topic "surgeon and surgery between requirement and reality" is now published in gms.
Thoracic Surgical Science (TSS) was started on 1. October 2004 as the second scientific journal on the gms platform. It is edited by the German Society for Thoracic Surgery. TSS offers all scientists working on the field of Thoracic Surgery the possibility to publish their research online. Only high-ranking and quality reviewed articles are accepted for publication. All accepted articles are published in English or German. They are available online for anyone interested: immediately, permanently and free of charge. Editor-in-Chief Lothar Swoboda and Assistant Editor Godehard Friedel encourage scientists working on the thoracic surgical field to submit their manuscripts to TSS.
The German Society of Phoniatrics & Pedaudiology publishes again all contributions of its
21. Scientific Annual Meeting, which takes place under the main topic "Neurolaryngology" from 10. to 12.9.2004 in Freiburg/Breisgau, in GMS.
Psycho-Social-Medicine (p-s-m) was started on 1 July 2004 as the first specialty journal on the gms platform. It is edited on an interdisciplinary level by ten German scientific societies from the areas of behavioral medicine, medical psychology and sociology, psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and psychotherapy. P-s-m offers all scientists from the field of psychosocial medicine the possibility to publish their research online. Only high-ranking and quality reviewed articles are accepted for publication. All accepted articles are published in English. They are available online for anyone interested: immediately, permanently and free of charge.
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GMS launched a new column "Reports", in which reports can be published concerning current and final research work.
From 8 to 11 May 2004 about 200 researchers met one year after first breaking out of the "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrom (SARS)" to a world-wide congress in Lübeck. Conference president was Professor Dr. rer. nat. Rolf Hilgenfeld, director of the institute for biochemistry of the university to Lübeck. The conference pointed out the current conditions of the study of the virus and the perspectives of its fight.
