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Advancing the quality and relevance of research in Veterinary Record
Author(s) -
Trees, A. J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.e3912
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , library science , quality (philosophy) , veterinary medicine , medicine , computer science , law , political science , epistemology , philosophy
THE Veterinary Record was established in 1888, with its founder William Hunting, commenting at the time, ‘Not only a scientific but a professional journal is our idea of what is wanted. We shall endeavour always to keep abreast of scientific progress and to report the observations and researches of experimentalists. We shall publish articles and essays on scientific matters but, firmly believing that the science of medicine derives even more benefit from the inductive than the deductive method, we shall spare no effort in the attempt to extract from practitioners, clinical reports of all their most interesting and instructive cases’.While the journal has done, and still strives to do that, there have been a number of innovations in response to changing times. The most recent and notable has been the decision by the BVA to seek an expert publishing house to produce the journal. Since BMJ Publications took over in 2009 there have been a number of major developments. One has been the adoption of online …