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Changes Are Afoot

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Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus (540–480 BC)

Even 2,500 years ago, change was inevitable. The AJR continues to change, hopefully for the better. The new editorial staff continues to work through the transition from the tried and true all-paper journal model to one that takes advantage of our brave new Internet world. Through the very hard work of many people, we have successfully converted from a snail mail paper-based submission and review process to an almost exclusively online process.

In the name of progress, more changes are in the works. Hopefully, what we call "progress" will not be the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. I take great pleasure in announcing that, beginning June 2004, as an added benefit to authors and readers of the AJR online, we will have the added availability and functionality of publishing supplemental materials in digital Internet-accessible form.

What does this mean to our authors and readers? Well, it means that the AJR will now be able to better transmit to you the art and science of radiology. For example, we are all experiencing the growing pains of how to display and archive 1,000+-slice-MDCT studies. How can authors fully communicate the nature of their new and exciting discoveries in a print-based world restricted in the number of pages that can be printed? How can our readers truly appreciate the full extent and context of dynamic pathophysiologic observations that previously could be displayed only live on a workstation?

The answer lies partly, of course, in the creation of moving pictures. The concept of moving pictures is not new. Hollywood and broadcast television have been around for decades. As radiologists, we have never truly lived in a static environment. Real-time imaging, such as with fluoroscopy and sonography, has been a staple of our specialty for decades. We have just never really had the ability to publish this type of material, until now.

Over the last few years, radiologists have increasingly acquired the ability to capture and display movies during their live performance lectures and conferences, with such tools as the ubiquitous PowerPoint (Microsoft). At our annual meetings, computer exhibits have grown in number and sophistication, with impressive multimedia displays. We now have the capability of capturing these types of materials and making them enduring and easily accessible to all journal subscribers around the world, not just to those who happen to be present at a particular lecture or meeting.

I have focused on what I believe will be the most common usage for this new publishing technology, but any number of different types of supplemental materials typically precluded from the traditional print world could be published including, but not limited to, oversized tables, lengthy appendixes, detailed protocols, supplementary data sets, additional images, interactive programs, audio and video files, software, or any other type of digital file that could not otherwise be practically published via print, all as citable entities.

Authors are encouraged to submit such appropriate additional data or files along with their manuscripts and images through our online manuscript and peer review system, Rapid Review (Cadmus), so as to enhance the dissemination of information to our online readers. If the supplementary material is accepted for online publication, the printed article will include an author's note to the readers that supplementary material is available online. Supplementary material will be available from the AJR's Web site and will be linked to the final published version of the article. Once accepted, the supplemental material is considered part of the journal's archival record and cannot be altered or removed.

This new feature comes as an added benefit of membership or journal subscription. The editors assure our readers that this supplemental material will undergo the same high-quality peer review afforded all other types of submissions to the AJR. It is our hope that this effort will be perceived as adding value to our subscribers' lifelong learning and advancement of health and science.

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