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Radiology 1999: Left-Hand Pages

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For the past several years, Radiology has maintained a policy of beginning each article within a given section on a right-hand page. A positive feature of this policy has been the convenience provided for the reader who wishes to remove articles from a given issue—no overlap with the last page of the prior article or the first page of the subsequent article. The negative feature of this policy, however, has been the accumulation of some 12–20 potentially blank left-hand pages per issue of the Journal. Rather than leave these pages blank, we have used them for a variety of items such as Interludes, Book Reviews, and others (1).

An exception to our left-hand page policy has been the Technical Developments section. In the past, articles in this section might begin not only on a left-hand page but also in the middle of a page. As of the January 1998 issue, my first as Editor, we continued the policy of beginning articles within the Technical Developments section on left-hand pages, if necessary, but not in the middle of a given page. We have received no negative feedback of this use of left-hand pages.

A number of items have prompted me to reconsider our left-hand page policy: (a) Publication space in our Journal is highly sought by authors from within and outside North America; (b) our number of submissions has not decreased but, in fact, has increased slightly; (c) the availability of the Radiology Online Edition has prompted some to no longer remove articles from the Journal in view of their ready availability electronically, thereby saving personal storage space; (d) we continue to amass a wealth of important material that deserves dissemination to our readers in as timely a fashion as possible; and (e) some highly respected nonimaging journals begin articles on left-hand pages. In view of the foregoing, we have implemented use of left-hand pages to begin articles within the given sections of the Journal. Some of you no doubt noticed this change that began in part with the June 1999 issue and is now fully implemented in the August 1999 issue. At this time, we have no plans to change our policy of beginning the first article in each section on a right-hand page. Thus, some left-hand pages will remain and will be used as in the past.

Radiology seeks to publish the best of the submissions it receives regarding imaging, imaging-related, radiation oncology, and medical physics research that is conducted worldwide and to offer, at the same time, information that is of practical value to its readers. Using left-hand pages in this new manner will help us achieve our goal by providing a more efficient use of the Journal pages. We trust our readers will agree that any inconvenience this new policy will create for them is minor in light of the benefit of improved use of space.

References

1. Proto AV. Radiology—1998 and the future. Radiology 1998; 206:1-2.[Free Full Text]

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