EHP Chinese Edition offers selected EHP content translated into Chinese. The Chinese edition premiered in 2001 as a quarterly publication. In 2004 EHP teamed up with the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (SCDC) to distribute print issues of EHP Chinese Edition to some 30,000 subscribers in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. EHP Chinese Edition is now published bimonthly in both print and digital formats. The bulk of EHP Chinese Edition is made up of news articles first published in EHP. Each issue also includes original or reprinted editorials, "At a Glance" text (brief synopses of research articles) from past issues of EHP, and occasional commentaries and review articles.
Current Issue: Volume 120-1C | February 2011
Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine is a bimonthly environmental and occupational health journal published by the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (SCDC), China. SCDC and EHP have jointly published EHP Chinese Edition since 2004.
SPM is a peer-reviewed journal published bi-monthly by the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. The journal's mission is to disseminate information on public health, defined as the application of the biological, social and administrative sciences to the analysis of health phenomena in human population, as well as the identification of health needs and the organization of integrated services. In March 2009, Salud Pública de México launched an EHP section, which includes selected articles from EHP news section translated into Spanish.
In 2003, EHP joined with the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and the Fundación Científica y Tecnológica, Asociación Chilena de Seguridad (Chilean Security Association; ACHS), to transform C&T, a local publication, into a high-quality regional Latin American journal devoted to occupational and environmental health. Each quarterly edition of C&T includes Spanish translations of selected EHP news articles.
As a journal capacity-building effort, the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, EHP, and Ciência & Saúde Coletiva developed a partnership in 2004. CSC is a quarterly public health journal published in Brazil by the Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva (Brazilian Association of Public Health; ABRASCO) and indexed in Medline. As a component of the partnership, CSC translates abstracts of selected EHP review articles into Portuguese for subsequent republication in print and electronic form.
Mali Médical is a quarterly medical journal published in Mali by the Société de Médecine du Mali. The partnership between MM and EHP is a result of the African Journal Partnership Project, a multinational initiative that focuses on journal capacity building in Africa.
Environnement risques et santé is a cross-disciplinary French journal covering all subjects that involve the environment and health. Climatology, toxicology, epidemiology, biophysics, earth and water sciences, the study of radiation - all the health issues relevant to those fields are studied in ERS, from identifying health risks to examining legislation and standards.
In 2003, representatives from the John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) met with the editors of five international journals (including EHP) and four African journals with three objectives in mind: 1) to develop a program to strengthen African medical journals such that they could provide training for African medical researchers, 2) to improve the quality and visibility of these journals, and 3) to make the journals a better resource for local researchers and policy makers. The African medical journals were chosen because they are published in countries that have active NIH-sponsored research and are part of the communication network developed by NLM for the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria.
The program, which subsequently became known as the African Journal Partnership Project, was first funded in 2004, with the Council of Science Editors (CSE) agreeing to serve as the administrative body for this project. Once the participating editors had identified the African journals' capacity needs, the following partnerships were established:
Two of the four journals (African Health Sciences and MM) are now indexed in Medline, evidence of the heightened quality of these publications. The provision of technical equipment has allowed the journals to become more efficient and resulted in improvements in processing times and journal management. Performance indicators show that submissions have increased and the regularity of publication has improved. Each of the African partner editors has conducted a series of successful training workshops for authors and reviewers; by incorporating a training element for local facilitators, these workshops are now becoming sustainable regular events.
MM and Malawi Medical Journal have also developed fully functional websites for their journals from scratch, with EHP providing web hosting for the former. MM has already observed a huge increase in traffic to its website.
To help EHP fulfill its mission of disseminating scientific information not only to scientists but also to policy makers and an informed lay public, we provide translations of selected EHP content.
EHP Spanish Archives (Archivos españoles)
What is EHP?
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. EHP is an Open Access journal.
Can I submit my research paper to EHP Chinese Edition?
EHP Chinese Edition does not accept research manuscripts. However,EHP Chinese Edition does consider editorials that address research or policy issues related to environmental health in China. For further information, please contact Ms. Hui Hu, EHP International Program Manager, at hu@niehs.nih.gov or 919-541-4898.
Can I submit my research paper to an EHP partner journal?
Our partnership journals accept research papers according to their own policies. For details, please refer to each journal's Instructions to Authors, which are available on their websites.
Who is qualified to receive a complimentary subscription to EHP?
EHP considers requests for complimentary subscriptions to EHP Digital Edition from institutions located in nations classified by the World Bank as "low income" or "lower middle income." Subscriptions to EHP Digital Edition regularly sell for US$19.95 per year. EHP Digital Edition offers readers the design, pagination, references, and citations of the print edition in an easily searchable and shareable online format.
To request a complimentary subscription, please write to the Editor-in-Chief, EHP, MD EC-15, PO Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA, or e-mail EHPEditor@niehs.nih.gov. Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
EHP Digital Edition does not require any special software or hardware, but some readers may need to download the Google Gears plug-in (a free application available at http://gears.google.com/). If your organization is unable to use EHP Digital Edition, please indicate this in your request; you may be eligible to receive a print subscription.
The digital version of EHP Chinese Edition is available free of charge to all readers.
Can I republish EHP content?
The text of EHP articles, including articles translated into other languages, can be freely republished because EHP, as a U.S. government publication, is not subject to copyright. However, EHP occasionally licenses the use of copyrighted images to illustrate articles. Therefore, if you are interested in republishing either English-language EHP content or translated material published by one of our partnership journals, please contact Ms. Hui Hu at hu@niehs.nih.gov or (919) 541-4898 for information on any copyright restrictions that may apply.
Can I translate EHP content myself?
If you wish to translate EHP content into another language, please contact Ms. Hui Hu, EHP International Program Manager, at hu@niehs.nih.gov or 919-541-4898.
Does EHP provide training or assistance with scientific writing?
EHP offers manuscript writing workshops to students and researchers worldwide through its Research Communication program. These workshops cover a range of topics including the publication process, the structure of a paper, the peer-review process, scientific writing style, writing in English as a foreign language, and preparation of posters and oral presentations.
Support and mentoring is also available from AuthorAID, a free program that helps researchers from developing countries publish their work.
African Journals Online | www.ajol.info
AJOL is a non-profit organization based in South Africa that makes African-origin research available worldwide. The website is the world's largest collection of peer-reviewed African-published scholarly journals.
AuthorAID | www.authoraid.info
AuthorAID is a free international research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources, and training and helps researchers in developing countries to publish and otherwise communicate their research. AuthorAID is based at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications and is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, The Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation, and the UK Department for International Development.
Scientists Without Borders | www.scientistswithoutborders.org
Scientists Without Borders is a free web-based collaborative community dedicated to enabling users to connect and exchange resources and expertise to generate, share, and advance innovative science- and technology-based solutions to pressing global development challenges. The community includes individuals and organizations at all levels of academia, NGOs, government, and the private sector across a variety of regions, disciplines, and subject matter.
The Journal of Young Investigators | www.jyi.org
The Journal of Young Investigators (JYI) is a nonprofit, student-run initiative to help broaden the scope of the undergraduate scientific experience, providing opportunities for students to participate in the scientific review and publication processes primarily through operation of its peer-reviewed journal for undergraduates. It is supported by the National Science Foundation, The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., Science Magazine, Swarthmore College, Duke University, and Georgetown University.
Online Access to Research in the Environment | www.oaresciences.org
OARE is an international public?private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. The consoritum enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.
PubMed Central | www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
PMC is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology in the National Library of Medicine. PMC is not a journal publisher, but rather preserves and maintains access to the electronic literature, just as it has done for decades with the printed biomedical literature.
Research4Life | www.research4life.org
Research4Life is the collective name for AGORA, HINARI, and OARE, which offer provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.
Ms. Hui Hu
International Program Manager
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Domestic phone: 919-541-4898
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