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Advances in Contemporary Nursing ISSN 1832-9861: An annual series from Contemporary Nurse
James Davidson
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Advances in Contemporary Nursing
ISSN 1832-9861
An annual series from Contemporary Nurse
Almost three years ago, Contemporary Nurse published its first special issue – Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing, guest edited by John Daly and Debra Jackson. This special issue is now in its fifth printing having enjoyed adoption as a course reader on six university campuses, separate sales through global university library suppliers, medical and campus bookshops and directly to students, individual nurse researchers and practitioners. This year, Contemporary Nurse will publish its fifth – Advances in Indigenous Health Care, guest edited by Eileen Willis, Viki Smye and Maria Rakmeka – and sixth special issue – Advances in Community and Family Health Care, guest edited by Debra Jackson and Philip Darbyshire. A further eight special issues are in progress and new editions of past special issues are underway.
As a Contemporary Nurse subscriber, you will continue to receive special issues as part of your subscription to Contemporary Nurse. Citations of articles will remain as Contemporary Nurse. We are now collecting special issues together into boxed sets of 4 issues and also providing them under the title Advances in Contemporary Nursing.
I am pleased to announce a management structure and dedicated editorial board for the Advances in Contemporary Nursing series. Debra Jackson (Professorial Research Fellow at University of Western Sydney) has kindly accepted our invitation to be Managing Editor of Advances in Contemporary Nursing. The time has come to coordinate the topics, contents, currency, balance, authorship and refereeing of Contemporary Nurse special issues. We also see special issues as a means of reaching beyond our Asia Pacific readership to the Americas, Middle East and Europe. In September 2005 (Contemporary Nurse 20/1, p. 2) I outlined our three year plan for special issues in the Advances in Contemporary Nursing series (ISSN 1832-9861) of special issues from Contemporary Nurse. We are now inviting a global team of board members to assist us in the tasks involved in maintaining, promoting and growing the series. Nominations for the Advances in Contemporary Nursing board, guest editors and topics for special issues are especially welcome from Contemporary Nurse readers. Please contact us with your recommendations.
By collecting Contemporary Nurse special issues into a series with its own title we can now offer boxed sets of four printed special issues each year as a subscription to to global libraries establishing Nursing collections. The package offer is as follows:
Advances in Contemporary Nursing (ISSN 1832-9861) annual subscription:
2006: Boxed Set Volumes 1 - 4
Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing (ISBN 0-9750436-1-7)
Advances in Child & Family Health Care (ISBN 0-9750436-3-3)
Advances in Mental Health Nursing (ISBN 0-9750436-8-4)
Advances in Interpersonal Violence (ISBN 0-9750436-6-8)
2007: Boxed Set Volumes 5 - 8
Advances in Indigenous Health Care (ISBN 0-9750436-9-2)
Advances in Contemporary Community & Family Health Care (ISBN
0-9757710-2-7)Advances in Nurse Recruitment & Retention (ISBN
0-9757710-0-0)
Advances in General Practice Nursing (ISBN 0-9757710-3-5)
2008: Boxed Set Volumes 9 - 12
Advances in Contemporary Aged Care (ISBN 0-9757710-1-9)
Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing (2nd Edn) (ISBN 0-9757710-5-1)
Advances in Palliative & Supportive Care (ISBN 0-9757710-4-3)
Advances in Contemporary Nurse Education (ISBN 0-9775242-7-2)
During my ten years with Elsevier and seven years with Sage Publications I became acutely aware of the high entry price libraries must pay when their universities create new disciplines. We hope that this package, under the title Advances in Contemporary Nursing and ISSN 1832-9861, will extend the reach of Contemporary Nurse into new nursing libraries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, while continuing to provide excellent service and value for money to existing subscribers.
We value your views and invite you to welcome Debra Jackson and the expanded editorial team to Contemporary Nurse from volume 22/2 (September 2006).
James H Davidson, Publisher
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