A message from the Editor-in-Chief, Ian McGrath

Welcome to the new British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) website. This is an interesting time to be setting out to lead the BJP team and to carry on Humphrey Rang's excellent stewardship. We now have the same publisher for BJP and BJCP, Wiley-Blackwell, supplying new energy, ideas and a strong presence across all fields of pharmaceutical and medical research. This means that the two journals can work together to cover the whole of pharmacology and we can make more use of editorial content, drawing on expertise from across the whole spectrum. The intention is both to expand the reach of our publications across the whole field of understanding drugs and to provide a real showcase for pharmacology.

The editorial teams on BJP and BJCP are fully committed to these goals and the publishers are geared up to employ innovative approaches to facilitate this, such as compiling "virtual themed issues" covering a selected topic with content taken from both journals. Pushing the translational agenda, "Bench to Bedside", will become much easier. The thematic concept and the increased use of reviews that we have developed in the last couple of years will be used to the full, and will provide an attractive publication platform for related original papers. It will also allow better integration with the BPS and other meetings programmes.
There will be a number of innovations in the course of 2009, but a sneak preview, and one close to my own heart, will be the free availability of full colour, which, I believe, will prove a boon and an incentive to publish in BJP for those of us using imaging and other visual technologies.

The journal's success depends mainly on our authors submitting their best work across the whole field. Our job is to encourage you to do that by maintaining our high standards and levels of service to authors and by adding new features and functionality that will appeal to authors and readers alike.

So we are doing all we can to ensure that BJP, with BJCP, evolves into the leading international platform for publication in pharmacology. Please join in by sending us your best work on any aspect of drug research.

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