Abstract
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery published in the A and B volumes remains the premier Orthopaedic Journal of the world. Like other specialist scientific journals it is coming under increasing pressure from the move to more electronic publication on the Internet and the wider availability of freely downloadable information. The need to move to the new technology must be balanced against the needs of the majority of our subscribers, who still require the paper journal, and with the financial requirements of a charitable based not-for-profit publication.
The paper will discuss how these pressures might be met and the plans for the redesign of our website to deliver a wider range of material, including the possibility of electronic pre-prints. The future of the Combined subscription CD-ROM will also be addressed together with the exciting future possibilities offered by the developments in digital information technology.
The abstracts were prepared by Professor Jegan Krishnan. Correspondence should be addressed to him at the Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park 5047, Australia.
