ICAAC 2012: Top 10 Papers

If you can't be at ICAAC, this is the next best thing.  Why? Because we love you. Special thanks to Andreas Voss and Loreen Herwaldt. Note: There are at least 60 papers listed. Like all infection prevention folks, they give you a lot for your money.

ICAAC 2012 top papers from iPrevent

New #OpenAccess Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (ARIC) Journal Publishes First Papers

Andreas Voss, Jan Kluytmans and Didier Pittet have successfully started a new international, open-access journal called Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (ARIC). The first batch of papers were just posted today to the ARIC website.  This event is a significant for several reasons.

The first, as I've mentioned before, is that as an open-access journal, ARIC will allow unaffiliated scientists, the general public and otherwise interested parties free full access immediately upon publication without having to wait years or pay high fees. In an editorial, accompanying the first publications, the editors highlight their views of open access including how they hope to respond to the high initial costs for authors.

They write: "ARIC's choice of "open-access" is a logical step towards its goal to be truly international and to allow the transfer of knowledge and best practices to even remote places that cannot afford printed journals. We realize that open access has financial consequence for some authors and that the standard BioMed Central rules to waive article-processing charges may not be enough. BioMed Central provides an automatic waiver to authors based in any country classified by the World Bank as low-income or lower-middle-income economies, but we intend to find solutions in the near future that will allow us to support authors from upper-middle income countries and young investigators" 

The second and I think equally important reason that ARIC's emergence is important is that we've never had an international voice in infection control. As the 1200 attendees from 84 countries at last summers ICPIC meeting can attest, international collaboration will be the key for controlling antimicrobial-resistant bacterial pathogens (think NDM-1) in the future.


I wish the editors and the ARIC journal much luck and future success!

@eliowa

Open Source ARIC Journal: Now Open!

As we mentioned back in June, there's a new open-source BMC journal titled - Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (ARIC).  The website for submissions is NOW active. Per Andreas Voss, the Editor-in-Chief, manuscripts are being accepted and the "under construction" sign will be removed after the first paper is published. In addition to Andreas, Jan Kluytmans is the Deputy Editor and Didier Pittet is the Executive Editor, so this will be an excellent addition to our field and the benefits of having an open-source option can't be over emphasized. Submit your manuscripts here and read more about what types of papers they are looking for here.

Journal website: www.aricjournal.com/