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Open Access

## Promising developments for the Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

Ole Jakob Storebø

As 2016 comes to a close, I am pleased to announce that Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology has begun a relationship with the new U.S. publisher Exeley and that the journal now appears on Exeley's platform: http://www.exeley.com/journal/sj\_child\_adolescen t\_psychiatry\_psychology.  This  is  a  very  modern journal platform that is based on the technology used to electronically publish Nature. Numerous functionalities  are  available  to  the  user,  such  as automatic metadata export to internet databases and abstracting services, social media sharing, responsive design  (content  optimization  for  mobile  devices), citation export, cross-reference integration (live links), article metrics (usage statistics and reports on visibility), and rapid commenting. Altmetrics for the articles can also be tracked; these include the number of  times  a  research  articles  is  cited,  tweeted  about, liked, shared, bookmarked, viewed, downloaded, and mentioned. The platform also includes social media statistics on the article metrics dashboard so that the distribution  of  article  mentions  can  be  tracked. Exeley offers support for the indexing process, and SJCAPP articles  are  now  indexed  in  JournalTOCs, ProQuest, and Exlibris.

One  of SJCAPP 's  most  important  goals  for  the near future is to be indexed in PubMed, and many of our authors have asked when this is going to occur. There are two ways for us to get into PubMed: either through Medline or through PubMed Central. It is very difficult to go through Medline, so we will start with PubMed Central: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/, which  is an open  access  repository  for  XMLformatted  full-text  articles.  The  basic  criteria  for journals to appear here are that they must be ISSN registered, they must have been publishing for at least 2 years, and they must have published approximately 50 articles. The sample set of articles submitted for review should be representative of the various article types and styles offered by the journal, and it should include the file formats found in the journal's archive. Exeley  performed  an  internal  evaluation  of  our journal  and  determined  that  we  are  now  ready  to apply to PubMed Central: we have published more than 50 articles, we have been publishing for more than  3  years,  and  all  of  our  articles  have  been converted to XML. It has been noted that we need to  add  information  to  each  article  about  ethical aspects  such  as  funding  and  any  declarations  of interest. We have begun to add this information in the current issue and will do so going forward; we have  also  written  to  the  authors  of  the  first  and second issues of this year and asked them to supply these details. When  this information has been collected  and  the  first  issue  of  2017  has  been published, we can send our application to PubMed. If the journal is rejected, we have to wait 24 months before we can reapply, so we must cross our fingers. This  is  truly  an  important  step  toward SJCAPP obtaining an official impact factor. After the journal is  accepted  to  PubMed,  we  will  go  for  Thomson Reuters. Exeley has also evaluated SJCAPP 's readiness  to  apply  for  indexing  in  Scopus,  and  it seems that we are ready for this as well. Scopus also provides journal metrics (www.journalmetrics.com), and we will be sending in our application shortly.

Exeley also assists with the promotion of selected articles,  and  the  Biederman  article  from  this  year's issue 2 is now published on the homepages of several public relations agencies. We will continue to reach out to the media about selected articles to increase the visibility of the journal and thus increase submissions.

We have just received a grant of 120,000 SKR from the  Swedish  'Vetenskabsrådet'.  We  will  use  this grant to pay for some of the services from Exeley.

We are currently considering different strategies to raise  the  number  of  new  articles  submitted  for publication.  We  will  start  here  by  asking  you,  dear readers, to consider making a submission to SJCAPP.

As the journal becomes indexed in more databases, it will become easier and easier for more readers to access our articles. We are an open access journal that does  not  require  payment  for  anyone  to  view  our articles, and we do not charge any publication fees. All  accepted  articles  are  published  in  English  and edited by a U.S. company at no charge to the authors. We have a fast and effective peer-review process, and we publish high-quality articles. This is our third and final issue for 2016, and we hope that you enjoy it.