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Bioethics ISSN 0269-9702 (print); 1467-8519 (online) Volume 28 Number 6 2014 p ii
doi:10.1111/bioe.12104
EDITORIAL
THE BEAUTY OF AGE AND DIGITAL PUBLISHING It is an odd combination to celebrate, age and digital publishing, but we have some reason to do so at Bioethics. We are now well over a quarter of a century on the road, morphing from a smallish quarterly to what is now, in effect a monthly publication when taken together with our sister publication Developing World Bioethics. A lot has been published during those years that remains very relevant to current discussions in the field. Unfortunately, even the best researcher can overlook relevant publications and, yes, sometimes there could also be an age bias working against publications that were published a decade or two ago. It is here that digital publishing comes in handy. All our published papers are available on-line, going all the way back to content that saw the world in our inaugural issue. Do you recall Mary Warnock’s piece asking whether human cells have rights, or Richard Mohr’s impassionate defence of gay rights during the heights of the AIDS-related moral panic in 1987? Well, to help you refresh your memory of older-but-worthremembering content in the journal, we have sat with our publisher thinking what we can do to bring some of those older papers back to life, so to speak. That is how the idea of virtual special issues came about. Basically we will invite specialist guest editors to search
through our backfiles and compile thematic virtual special issues. These virtual special issues will re-publish older content with a fresh-look guest editorial by our guest editors. These issues will not only feature topquality content from the journal, they will also give you a good idea of developments that have taken place during the last few decades of rapid growth in bioethics research. I am delighted to announce that two such issues are in the making, both produced by our esteemed Finnish colleagues Matti Häyry and Tuija Takala. The first virtual special issue is pretty much ready to go. It will be dedicated to Philosophical Methods in Bioethics. Their second virtual issue will be dedicated to the Conceptual Foundations of Bioethics. Look out for these compilations if these topics are of interest to you. To be on the safe side, go to http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/ 10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8519, if you have not done so yet, and register your contact details. That will enable you to receive content up-dates automatically when new articles are going live on-line, when a new print-issue is out, and when new virtual special issues become available. At this intersection, age and digital publishing really can result in worthwhile old-new reads.
UDO SCHÜKLENK
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Bioethics ISSN 0269-9702 (print); 1467-8519 (online) Volume 28 Number 6 2014 p ii
doi:10.1111/bioe.12104
EDITORIAL
THE BEAUTY OF AGE AND DIGITAL PUBLISHING It is an odd combination to celebrate, age and digital publishing, but we have some reason to do so at Bioethics. We are now well over a quarter of a century on the road, morphing from a smallish quarterly to what is now, in effect a monthly publication when taken together with our sister publication Developing World Bioethics. A lot has been published during those years that remains very relevant to current discussions in the field. Unfortunately, even the best researcher can overlook relevant publications and, yes, sometimes there could also be an age bias working against publications that were published a decade or two ago. It is here that digital publishing comes in handy. All our published papers are available on-line, going all the way back to content that saw the world in our inaugural issue. Do you recall Mary Warnock’s piece asking whether human cells have rights, or Richard Mohr’s impassionate defence of gay rights during the heights of the AIDS-related moral panic in 1987? Well, to help you refresh your memory of older-but-worthremembering content in the journal, we have sat with our publisher thinking what we can do to bring some of those older papers back to life, so to speak. That is how the idea of virtual special issues came about. Basically we will invite specialist guest editors to search
through our backfiles and compile thematic virtual special issues. These virtual special issues will re-publish older content with a fresh-look guest editorial by our guest editors. These issues will not only feature topquality content from the journal, they will also give you a good idea of developments that have taken place during the last few decades of rapid growth in bioethics research. I am delighted to announce that two such issues are in the making, both produced by our esteemed Finnish colleagues Matti Häyry and Tuija Takala. The first virtual special issue is pretty much ready to go. It will be dedicated to Philosophical Methods in Bioethics. Their second virtual issue will be dedicated to the Conceptual Foundations of Bioethics. Look out for these compilations if these topics are of interest to you. To be on the safe side, go to http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/ 10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8519, if you have not done so yet, and register your contact details. That will enable you to receive content up-dates automatically when new articles are going live on-line, when a new print-issue is out, and when new virtual special issues become available. At this intersection, age and digital publishing really can result in worthwhile old-new reads.
UDO SCHÜKLENK
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
