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EQUINE VETERINARY EDUCATION
Equine vet. Educ. (2020) 32 (8) 396 doi: 10.1111/eve.13331
Editorial Keeping on top of the literature
Equine Veterinary Education’s mission is to provide clinically relevant information and practical educational articles to equine veterinary clinicians around the globe. Veterinary practitioners need constant access to the published literature and current concepts of equine diseases to aid their problem-solving and clinical decision-making processes, particularly with the increasing emphasis on evidence-based veterinary medicine. Unfortunately, there is no single, freely available source of all current information for equine veterinarians, and with the ever-increasing volume of clinical research, it is becoming more and more challenging for journals such as EVE to meet the needs of all of our readers, even in the relatively small fields of equine medicine and surgery. Of course there are many other equine clinical and research journals being published, and these are important sources of new information. However, apart from the open- access journals, much of the published research has limited availability to practitioners in the field, who often have neither the time nor the ability to access multiple journals through personal or institutional libraries. Through EVE, we have therefore attempted to update practitioners with current, relevant research findings and evidence through the publication of Review Articles, Critically Appraised Topics, Clinical Commentaries and Highlights of articles published in other journals. One of the major problems that our journal faces is the
restriction on page numbers that we can regularly publish, and the resulting limits on the numbers and types of articles that can be accepted for publication. In 2018, we initiated a change in the way that the Case Reports are presented by publishing a one-page summary of the report in the print issue and having the full report available online. This change has allowed us to ease the backlog of Case Reports waiting
in Early View to be published in print and has freed up space in the print issue to allow us to commission and publish more of the other article types. Despite some veterinary journals moving completely onto digital platforms, surveys of our readers have consistently indicated their desire to have EVE available in both online and printed versions. For the foreseeable future, therefore, we will continue to publish the journal both online and in print format. Despite the changes that we have initiated with the publication of Case Reports (which we still consider to be an important element of EVE’s mission), the pressure on space in the journal continues to mount. Whilst it is not our aim to be a primary research journal, Original Articles that contain novel information with direct clinical applicability to equine veterinarians are an appropriate and welcome component of the journal. In order to encourage the publication of these types of articles, whilst at the same time promoting the publication of other types of clinically relevant articles, we are now changing the way we publish Original Articles to a similar format to Case Reports – that is we will publish a one-page summary of the Original Article in the print version of the journal with the full manuscript published online. The one-page summary will include a structured abstract summarising the study aims, methodology and findings, and an explanation of the clinical relevance of the findings to equine practice. Full details of the new format for submitting authors can be found in EVE’s Author Guidelines. (
https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/ 20423292/homepage/
forauthors.html).
T. S. MAIR Editor
EVE Editorial Office
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