Friday 25 June 2010

Supplementary material for journal articles

On our online platform, informahealthcare.com, we encourage authors to take advantage of our multimedia supplementary material feature when publishing their articles in any Informa Healthcare journal. As an author, you may wish to publish additional files containing information that is peripheral to the conclusions of the paper, but that further demonstrate the results or significance of your work, alongside the main article content that will be printed in an issue. This supplementary material could be valuable to specialist readers, while not necessary for other readers to understand and appreciate the methods and conclusions in the main article files. This material is hosted online together with your article PDF and HTML and is viewable to all subscribers and pay-per-view customers and can, on request (and with agreement of the Editor), be made free to all users.

This feature provides authors with a number of options to further enhance their work. For example, by using video or animated figure files, it is possible to visually demonstrate a biological or technical process. Audio files may be used to support topics discussed in speech and language pathology articles. You can include large data sets within your papers, containing some background information (e.g., genome sequences, gene expression profiles, extended data), which may allow readers to use the information to fully investigate the implications of your research. Surveys, presentation slides and detailed chemical/metabolic pathways are just three more examples of what can be included.

The informahealthcare.com site can accept supplementary material in almost any format, including .doc, .xls, .ppt, .gif, .jpg, .mov, .mp3, .wma, .wav and .pdf. Any supplementary files that you wish to include should be submitted to the editorial office together with the main article files, and will be reviewed as part of the normal manuscript peer-review process. The Editor will make a decision regarding whether the additional content is suitable for inclusion.

Jonathan Collard
Electronic Production Manager

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