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Editorial
A trip on the world wide web
  1. I B Pless
  1. Montreal Children's Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor Pless;
 barry.pless{at}mcgill.ca

https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.8.4.261

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    Web based submissions and reviewing are here to stay

    A s the kids say, moving the journal onto the world wide web has been “a trip”. Although if memory serves that phrase is meant to convey something deliriously wonderful (perhaps literally so), this voyage has been like most travels—mainly pleasure but not without its painful moments.

    As readers and contributors will all know by now, since May 1 all new manuscripts are handled by our web site (http://submit-ip.bmjjournals.com/) and managed by Bench>Press. For reasons beyond my comprehension this has nearly doubled the rate of new submissions. For an editor, in spite of meaning more work, that is certainly good news . . . without papers we starve and die. Much more importantly, however, and far more mysterious is the fact that so many of the new papers are of such high quality. This makes life tough for the editor, but, hey . . . why do you think …

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