Launch of the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care of India
The Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, a publication of Academy of Family Physicians of India, is a peer-reviewed online journal with semiannual print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at http://www.jfmpc.com
The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository. The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of manuscripts and even for color reproduction of photographs.
The Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care seeks to foster academic communication and interdisciplinary research among primary care providers engaged in various forms. The journal covers broad spectrum of clinical topical catering to the academic needs of family physicians, urban GPs, rural physicians, NRHM doctors, community surgeons, community health workers, providers of community obstetrical & pediatric care, emergency physicians, occupational physicians and public health specialists. The journal publishes original article on clinical studies, theories and policies related to the academic discipline of family medicine and primary care.
The Journal of Family Medicine and Primary care also acts as an interactive forum for primary care providers, policy makers, health care administrators, community leaders, social scientists, health care funding agencies towards provision of cost effective, personalized, continued, comprehensive, holistic form of health care to individuals, families and communities.
The journal shall be launched in January 2012 as an online biannual issue. After the first year the journal shall be published on a quarterly basis and in print form as well.
To stay in touch with the Journal:
Table of Contents (TOC) email alerts: Receive an email alert containing the TOC when a new complete issue of the journal is made available online.
To register for TOC alerts go to http://www.jfmpc.com/signup.asp. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) helps you to get alerts on new publication right on your desktop without going to the journal’s website. You need a software (e.g. RSSReader, Feed Demon, FeedReader, My Yahoo!, NewsGator and NewzCrawler) to get advantage of this tool. RSS feeds can also be read through FireFox or Microsoft Outlook 2007. Once any of these small (and mostly free) software is installed, add http://www.jfmpc.com/rssfeed.asp as one of the feeds.
For more information, including online submission of articles please go to http://www.journalonweb.com/jfmpc/