Elsevier Launches International Journal of Surgery Case Reports

New Journal, Included in PubMed Central, Publishes Case Reports Only and Through an Author Pays Model

OXFORD, England, September 22, 2010 - Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services together with Surgical
Associates Ltd the Owner of the International Journal of Surgery, announced
today the launch of the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports (IJSCR)
(www.elsevier.com/locate/ijscr) a new author-pays online general
surgical journal dedicated to publishing case reports only. The IJSCR was
created to publish case reports previously submitted to the International
Journal of Surgery
(www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/705107/descript
ion#description), a peer reviewed Journal dedicated to publishing significant
contributions to knowledge in clinical surgery, experimental surgery,
surgical education and history.

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Case reports include stories, anecdotes and patient-based
learnings that complement evidence-based medicine and are essential to the
advancement of healthcare. This new online peer reviewed journal will only
publish case reports which are clinically interesting, authentic, educational
and understandable to an international audience of surgeons and clinicians in
related specialties.

"While infrequently cited for research purposes, case reports
are popular and represent some of the oldest levels of evidence," said
Professor R. David Rosin, Editor-in-Chief and Dr. Riaz Agha, Managing and
Executive Editor. "In recent times the first face transplant and uterine
transplant were presented as single cases. It is with the richness of such
cases and demand from authors that we feel the time has come to launch
International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. We make an open call to the
wider surgical community to join us in this exciting venture and demonstrate
the rich diversity of clinical surgery by submitting their best cases to
IJSCR."

Elsevier aim to develop the science of case reports and raise
their academic value. Ultimately, these case reports will form a rich
database, a corpus of clinical information which could be mined for
interesting trends/patterns, disease modeling and for the purposes of
surveillance, especially of rare diseases.

Glen Campbell, Executive Vice President, Global Medical
Research Journals at Elsevier noted, "The International Journal of Surgery
Case Reports is an exciting opportunity for Elsevier to serve the needs of
our authors, who know that case reports communicate important clinical
findings within the surgical field, but recognize the challenge case reports
face in being accepted by traditional research journals. The launch of this
journal is an example of Elsevier's long standing record of adapting to meet
authors' and readers' changing information and knowledge needs, preserving
the quality and integrity of the peer review process, and providing value
throughout the publishing cycle."

The editorial board is led by Editor in Chief, Professor R.
David Rosin and Managing and Executive Editor, Dr. Riaz Agha. Professor Rosin
is currently Professor of Surgery, University of the West Indies at the
Cavehill campus and Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados.
He is a past Senior Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England and Past President of the British Association of Surgical Oncologists
and the Association of Cancer Surgeons. He founded the Society for Minimally
Invasive General Surgeons, now the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons and
is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons, the University of London
and the University of the West Indies.

Dr. Riaz Agha BSc (Hons) MBBS is currently Founder, Managing
and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Surgery and a Junior
Doctor at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge. He
is a Council Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), a National
Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence Scholar and also sits on the Web
Committee for the World Association of Medical Editors.

Publishing Case Reports

All case reports will be peer reviewed and if accepted for
publication in the Journal, authors will be notified of this decision and at
the same time requested to pay an Author Processing Fee of Euro 280 / US
$392.50 (exclusive of VAT/Sales Tax). Following payment of this fee, case
reports will join other titles which are universally available at no further
charge through ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22102612. To submit a case
report, go to the online submission site:
ees.elsevier.com/ijscasereports.com.

Elsevier will also send to PubMed Central (PMC) the final
authoritative version of each case report and will authorize its public
posting on PMC, and PMC mirror sites, immediately. These sites will also link
directly to the case report which will be made universally accessible on
Elsevier's websites.

About Elsevier

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