Editors-in-Chief: Carl V. Phillips, USA
Corinne Aragaki, USA

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to submit your next manuscript to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations.

Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal of epidemiologic research methods, applications, critical overviews, teaching tools, perspectives, and other analytic work.

The journal provides a home for articles that are normally difficult to publish in the health science literature, such as policy analysis, philosophy of the science, and presentations of practical (but not necessarily cutting-edge) methodological points. More generally, the journal publishes articles on any topic in or of epidemiology except standard reports of study findings (see our lead editorial for more details).

The journal considers the following articles: analytic perspectives, methodology articles, research, commentaries, software articles and database articles.

The journal is available at www.epi-perspectives.com and a number of articles have already been published. To keep up to date with the latest articles from Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, why not register to set up email alerts?

We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please read below for further information about the journal and its publisher, BioMed Central.

Yours sincerely,

Carl V. Phillips & Corinne Aragaki

Editor-in-Chief, Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations

Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, is published by BioMed Central, the Open Access Publisher. Read on to find out more about the benefits of submitting to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, recent articles, and how Open Access is funded.

How is Open Access funded?

To enable the journal to make all of its content Open Access, from 1st April 2005 Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations will levy an article-processing charge for each manuscript accepted after peer review (payable on acceptance). The charge will be £330 (approximately US$600 or €500, dependent on currency fluctuations). The fee will be payable by the authors unless their institution or society is a BioMed Central member, but can be waived in cases of genuine hardship.

The fee pays for:

• Administering thorough and fair peer-review
  
  
• Preparing various formats of the manuscript for online publication
  
  
• Immediate, world-wide, barrier-free and permanent access to the full text
  
  
• Securing immediate full text inclusion in permanent archives, such as PubMed Central, Potsdam University, INIST and the National Library of the Netherlands
  
  
• Securing inclusion in CrossRef, which enables references to be linked directly to their online versions, if available
  
  
• Developing and maintaining electronic tools for submission, peer review and publication

Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations's publisher, BioMed Central, operates a membership scheme to enable institutions and societies to remove the burden of payment from individual researchers. Authors at institutions or societies that are members of BioMed Central do not have to pay the article-processing charge directly as it is covered by a payment from their institution or society. These authors can submit an unlimited number of articles to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, as well as any other journals published by BioMed Central. Over 500 institutions and societies worldwide have already become BioMed Central members.

Note that many funding bodies have shown support for Open Access by explicitly allowing the use of their grants to pay article-processing charges. These include the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the UK National Health Service.

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Recent articles

Please take a moment to look at some of the articles recently published in Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations and consider submitting your next manuscript.

Analytic Perspective    
Distributional interaction: Interpretational problems when using incidence odds ratios to assess interaction
Ulka B Campbell, Nicolle M Gatto, Sharon Schwartz
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2005, 2:1 (3 March 2005)

Software    
WINPEPI (PEPI-for-Windows): computer programs for epidemiologists
Joseph H Abramson
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004, 1:6 (17 December 2004)

Analytic Perspective    
Years of Life Lost due to exposure: Causal concepts and empirical shortcomings
P Morfeld
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004, 1:5 (16 December 2004)

Methodology    
A further critique of the analytic strategy of adjusting for covariates to identify biologic mediation
Jay S Kaufman, Richard F MacLehose, Sol Kaufman
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004, 1:4 (8 October 2004)

Analytic Perspective    
The missed lessons of Sir Austin Bradford Hill
Carl V Phillips, Karen J Goodman
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004, 1:3 (4 October 2004)

To keep up to date with the latest articles from Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, why not register to receive alerts? Registration also enables you to customise your subject areas of intereset, store your searches and submit your manuscripts.

To discuss whether your work would be suitable for the journal, contact the Editors-in-Chief Carl V. Phillips & Corinne Aragaki

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Benefits of submitting to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations

There are numerous benefits to submitting your work to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations:

• An efficient online submission process
• High quality peer review
• Immediate publication upon acceptance
• All articles can be freely printed, emailed to colleagues, and posted on the web because of the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement
• Ability to track the number of people viewing your article
• No page limits or restrictions on large data sets
• No colour charges or limits on numbers of figures
• Press releases are sent out about work of high quality and/ or of broad interest

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Submit your manuscript

Submitting a manuscript to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations is easy using the journal's online submission system. To find out more read the instructions for authors.

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