Aims

To support the free and open dissemination of research findings and information on alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. To encourage open access to peer-reviewed articles free for all to view.

For full versions of posted research articles readers are encouraged to email requests for "electronic reprints" (text file, PDF files, FAX copies) to the corresponding or lead author, who is highlighted in the posting.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Press Release - Addiction research: Key findings every month

 
The scientific journal Addiction has launched a new service for its readers: a webpage that lists the key scientific advances reported in each monthly issue, article by article, in bite-sized chunks. 

To access this free service, visit www.addictionjournal.org/keyfindings


One of the functions of a scholarly journal is to make important new scientific findings available to the public as quickly and clearly as possible. We think that article titles and abstracts do not fulfil this function well enough. 

Addiction’s key findings page aims to strike a balance between the brevity of a title – which often conveys no more than the subject of the article – and the wordiness of an abstract – in which the most important points are often buried in a mass of detail.  

Our key findings encapsulate the most significant scientific discoveries or results published in each issue of Addiction. > > > >

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