Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 51-1CompleteIssue | Page 4

J Rehabil Med 2019; 51: 1
JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE NOW ONLY DIGITAL
Dear readers,
As you may have noticed, Journal of Rehabilitation
Medicine (JRM) has been modernized over the last
two years, with a new layout, text and cover layout.
All articles now include lay abstracts, and the home
page is constantly updated. A new journal, Journal of
Rehabilitation Medicine – Clinical Communications
(JRM-CC) has been started to support clinicians to pu-
blish interesting material that usually is not accepted in
research journals, but is nevertheless of interest to clini-
cians, students and therapists. It is an online journal
with special focus on short communications, clinical
cases, commentaries, letters and special reports. We
are pleased to announce that an increasing number of
articles are now submitted and published in JRM-CC.
The most important step for JRM was taken on 1 st
of January 2017, when the journal introduced imme-
diate and total open access. As explained in an earlier
editorial, the printed version would be retained for a
transition period.
Now it is time to take the next step; from 1 st of Janu-
ary 2019 we will no longer publish the printed version.
In terms of indexing, there are two options to consider:
to publish the articles as they are accepted, or to follow
the model of the printed version, i.e. to collect them
in monthly issues. We have decided to continue with
monthly issues, with articles being published on our
website and also distributed to PubMed as ”Early view
articles” as soon as they are accepted, and thereafter
they will be published in monthly issues and indexed
with volume and page numbers in consecutive order.
JRM-CC, on the other hand, will publish articles as
soon as they are accepted and the articles will immedia-
tely be indexed with volume and a unique identification
number and pagination starting with 1 in all articles.
This means that for both journals all articles will be
fully available on our website from the day they are
fully accepted and approved by the authors.
Some readers might miss having the printed version
of JRM; however, the monthly issues could still be
printed out in colour and read as before.
Without the help from our editors and reviewers
we would not be able to keep the high quality in our
journal and will take this opportunity to sincerely thank
them all. We also wish all readers, authors, editors, and
reviewers all the best for 2019.
JRM–CC
JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE –
CLINICAL COMMUNICATIONS
The online journal for
Short communications, Clinical cases, Commentaries,
Letters and Special reports, etc.
An International
N on - profit Journal
Imm e diate
O p en Acc ess
JRM–CC
JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE
CLINICA L COMMUNICATIONS
Stockholm and Rotterdam December 2018
Kristian Borg and Henk Stam
EDITORIAL
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license. www.medicaljournals.se/jrm
Journal Compilation © 2019 Foundation of Rehabilitation Information. ISSN 1650-1977
doi: 10.2340/16501977-2512