American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Announces PharmSciTM, The Association's First Online Journal
Call for Papers Issued
Wolfgang Sadée, Ph.D. named Editor-in-Chief
Alexandria, VA - The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) announces the launch of its new exclusively online journal, PharmSci This electronic medium permits a new approach to scientific publishing. PharmSci will offer a forum for the rapid exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the pharmaceutical sciences. Manuscripts will be submitted by the authors directly via the World Wide Web; will be available to peer reviewers on the World Wide Web; and, once accepted and copyedited, will be available to readers on the World Wide Web. The journal invites manuscripts from all areas of the pharmaceutical sciences:
Analytical Chemistry
Bioengineering
Bioinformatics
Biological Sciences
Biophysics
Biostatistics
Biotechnology
Chemical Biology
Chemistry
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Sciences
Combinatorial Chemistry
Computational Chemistry
Drug Delivery
Drug Metabolism
Drug Therapy
Economics, Marketing and Management Sciences
Gene Therapy
High Throughput Screening
Material Sciences
Medicinal Chemistry
Natural Products Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Quality
Pharmaceutical Technologies
Pharmaceutics
Pharmacoepidemiology
Pharmacogenetics/Pharmacogenomics
Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacology
Physical Chemistry
Therapeutics
Tissue Engineering
Toxicology
Papers can be submitted immediately. The first issue of PharmSci will be closed for manuscripts published by March 31, 1999. PharmSci's instructions to authors can be accessed through www.pharmsci.org.
Wolfgang Sadée, Ph.D., Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California-San Francisco, was named PharmSci's Editor-in-Chief. Sadée, an AAPS Fellow, received the AAPS Distinguished Service Award in 1994 and was the first recipient of the AAPS Research Achievement Award in Biotechnology in 1991.
"Launching PharmSci as an electronic journal will change the way we disseminate information. Supported by a strong association, PharmSci offers significant advances in publication, rapid publication with immediate international access, and direct links to other information sources. In this medium, we are not limited by the need to print, but we can use the entire resources of the web," said Sadée.
AAPS is a professional, scientific society of more than 10,000 members employed in academia, industry, government and other research institutes worldwide. Founded in 1986, AAPS aims to advance science through the open exchange of scientific knowledge, serve as an information resource, and contribute to human health through pharmaceutical research and development.
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