Newswise — The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) today announced that its official journal, Anesthesia & Analgesia, has become the first leading peer-reviewed anesthesia journal to convert to a full color format. Members of the Anesthesia & Analgesia editorial staff worked with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins for nearly a year to update the journal’s design, making it easier to read, and providing authors with use of color to communicate their research findings.
The conversion to full color was accompanied by a complete redesign of the official website for the A&A journal, www.anesthesia-analgesia.org. The online journal is hosted by HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries. With 3 million hits per month, Anesthesia & Analgesia online site is among the highest trafficked websites in anesthesiology and perioperative medicine. The migration to the new HighWire H2O platform ensures that the journal’s content is available to the medical community via a full spectrum of Web 2.0 applications, feeds, widgets, and web services.
“We wanted to make sure that the availability of A&A content online was uninterrupted, and that the site’s functionality remained clear and intuitive,” says Steven Sayre, Publishing Director at the IARS. He adds, “When faced with a choice between a large commercial publisher’s online platform and HighWire’s H2O, we chose HighWire because we felt they understand our mission-driven organization. The fact that they are allied with so many nonprofit organizations and medical journals reassures us that they fully appreciate our organization’s commitment to improve patient care by providing the highest quality scholarly communication.”
Steven L. Shafer, MD, Editor-in-Chief of A, commented: “The increasing sophistication of clinical and basic research in anesthesiology and perioperative medicine challenges conventional approaches to convey this information. We now provide every author with a full color palette to increase the information content of figures, graphs, and tables. The full-color format of the journal, combined with our extensive use of online material for supplementary data and video, helps authors efficiently communicate their findings to the clinical and research community.”
About Anesthesia & Analgesia
Anesthesia & Analgesia was founded in 1922 and was issued bi-monthly until 1980, when it became a monthly publication. A&A is the leading journal for anesthesia clinicians and researchers and includes more than 500 articles annually in all areas related to anesthesia and analgesia, such as cardiovascular anesthesiology, patient safety, anesthetic pharmacology, and pain management. The journal is published on behalf of the IARS by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a division of Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
About the IARS
The International Anesthesia Research Society is a nonpolitical, not-for-profit medical society founded in 1922 to advance and support scientific research and education related to anesthesia. A fundamental tenet for the Society is to improve patient care through basic research. The IARS contributes more than $1 million annually to fund anesthesia research; it provides an annual meeting for anesthesiology leaders to share information and ideas; it maintains a worldwide membership of more 15,000 physicians, physician residents, and others with doctoral degrees, as well as health professionals in anesthesia-related practice; it sponsors the SAFEKIDS initiative in partnership with the FDA; and it publishes the monthly journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the oldest continuously-published journal in the field. For complete information about all of the IARS’s programs, visit the IARS website.
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