No endorsement by AMNews or the AMA is implied for Internet resources linked in this column. And they can be extremely detailed as well. We don't balk at providing complete gene or protein sequences. Papers in the first issue had internal links accessed by more than 600 readers, says Dr. Boatright, while it's estimated that fewer than 100 people read a typical life-sciences paper during its useful life. JAIR is distributed via newsgroup, ftp, the Web, and e-mail, says Executive Editor Steve Minton, PhD, and appears in Science Citation Index.
Editors say peer review is just like on paper, but lots more efficient.
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