Talk:The BMJ

message: Killfile explained  Midgley 02:47, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I thought the British Medical Journal had changed its name to "BMJ". (Maybe they were tired of getting confused with The Lancet.) Anybody know? --Nbauman 20:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted! The article ought to point that out or it should be retitled or some'it.  I found out when for you: At the bottom of page http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/about-bmj it states: "What does BMJ stand for? British Medical Journal. The name was changed in 1988 (vol 297)."--Aspro 14:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: BMJ or British Medical Journal?

message: The "Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin" has come back online again. http://www.dtb.bmj.com/dtb/do/home
Does any think it deserves its own article?  Could anyone write a good  honest appraisal of it (Andrew Herxheimer name suddenly comes to mind for some reason), rather  than the usual  PR job these articles often  get. --Aspro 13:01, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: DTB

message: A reference to this article was included by ATB. It is one of a pair of articles on the topic, "Are condoms the answer to rising rates of non-HIV sexually transmitted infection?". It argued no. Is this sufficiently notable to mention? Should other issues of controversy be sourced to add some balance to that section? Fences and windows (talk) 16:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversial articles

message: http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/about-bmj/editorial-staff
http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/about-bmj/editorial-advisory-board-1
My question is that how I validate those persons, if there are no physical addresses of them for readers to confirm...???--222.64.209.103 (talk) 00:01, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't the right place to ask that question. If you have a query about the BMJ's staff, why not ask them? Fences&Windows 02:41, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The publisher's staff are not entirely traceable.... 

message: Apparently that's how the publisher calls it: 
Although in citations, it's still named just "BMJ" -- could that be considered an ISO4-abbreviation of the the long name "The BMJ"?
Fgnievinski (talk) 16:02, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename to ''[[The BMJ]]''? 

message: This request to edit is submitted by David Allen of The BMJ, on the advice of a Wikipedia staffer. Please get back to me at dallen@bmj.com if you need to clarify anything.
Journal Content section:
On the Xmas edition it says: '.. is known for its spoof or humorous articles (though mainstream media often fall for the joke)'
Actually, these articles are never 'spoofs', and always based on real science, so we would suggest the following amended wording: '... is known for research articles which apply a serious academic approach to investigating less serious medical questions. The results are often humorous and widely reported by the mainstream media.' 
Editions
The BMJ is principally an online journal, and it is only the website which carries the full text content of every article. However, a number of print editions are produced, targeting different groups of readers with selections of content, some of it abridged, and different advertising. The print editions are:
General Practice (weekly) for general practitioners
Clinical Research (weekly) for hospital doctors
Academic (monthly) for institutions, researchers and medical academics
In addition, a number of local editions of The BMJ are published in translation. There is also Student BMJ, an online resource for medical students, junior doctors and those applying to medical school, which also publishes three print editions a year.  The BMJ's global online community is Doc2Doc.
BMJ Website and Access Policies
On Rapid Responses (para 1) it says:
'However, concerns remain, even among the web editors of the journal, that this feature may be abused by correspondents who might not want to contribute anything substantial to the topic under discussion.[19]'
While this may have been a concern in 2005 (when the referenced article was written), it is no longer a worry and the sentence above should be deleted if possible.
Also under BMJ Website and Access Policies its says: 'Access restrictions are lifted a year after publication.' 
This is wrong and should be deleted.
Other services
I would like to amend as follows:
"The following alerting services are freely available on request:
The BMJ - What’s new online (UK/US/India/International editions): Weekly summary of the need to know medical news, latest research, video, blogs and editorial comment.
·  The BMJ Editor’s choice: Dr Fiona Godlee introduces a selection of the latest research, medical news, comment and education each week.
·  The BMJ table of contents (daily or weekly): Links to the latest articles from The BMJ.
·  The BMJ press releases"
External links
Please update the link from 'Official website' as this goes to the company home page not the journal. The correct link is: http://www.bmj.com/thebmj
DavidAllen,TheBMJ (talk) 10:09, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi David, thank you for proposing these changes and the accompanying explanations. It looks like these are factual and don't contain any suggestions that might appear controversial. I have also added some further citations to support this. Drchriswilliams (talk) 12:11, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to edit 

message: Request from David Allen at The BMJ: can we update the cover image used on this page? The current version is from 2009. A more recent cover is now uploaded to Wikipedia Commons with default licence: 
Many thanks.
David Allen
DavidAllen,TheBMJ (talk) 09:18, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: by Drchriswilliams; thanks for the image donation. Altamel (talk) 02:26, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating the accompanying cover image (image supplied) 

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