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EDITORIAL

The Joy of being Free and Online

Vinod Scaria
Editor

Internet Health 2003;2(1):e1

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
Hannah More 1745-1833, British Writer

Internet health is right into its second Issue, and we are really beginning to experience the advantages of being free and online. We are aware of the fact that we would never reach the readership that we enjoy now [Thanks to search engines] if we had decided to publish it in some other form.

In fact, the flexibility of continuous publishing would not have happened without being online. The continuous publishing policy of Internet Health allows for instant publishing of accepted manuscripts-which could do away with the time lag often seen in other formats of publication. 

Internet Health upholds and supports the policy of Open and Free Access to all articles published in this Journal. This means anybody could access, copy, store and redistribute any articles we publish [provided proper credits are given and a link to the original article in Internet health is provided]. Though the authors retain the copyrights of their articles, we do not [and will not at any cost] charge the authors for publication [as other Open Access Publishers do]. This does not imply that the publication is cost free. In fact, we explore all avenues to cut costs. For example, we are trying to move our e-mail based manuscript tracking system to a web based service provided free of cost by the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication [ICAAP] http://www.icaap.org .


We are also exploring possible avenues of cooperation with other organizations and publication ventures, who would be interested in maintaining and distributing an open access archive of this Journal in various formats. We are also in the process of being listed in various web directories listing electronic Journals. This would significantly improve our visibility on major search engines.

Wish you happy browsing


  
   

Vinod Scaria is the founder Editor of Internet Health.His research interests include Cybermedicine, Electronic Publishing, Quality of Health Information on the internet, Cybermedical Ethics and related domains.
Correspondence: 
Vinod Scaria
Perumcheril,33/4711,Malaparamba,Calicut
Kerala, India 673009
E-Mail: vinodscaria@yahoo.co.in 

 

 
This is a non peer-reviewed article.Published on 10 July 2003  

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