Since we changed to using an on-line website for the process of submission to Cardiology in the Young, we have seen an increase in the number of articles submitted, and also an increase in the diversity of subjects covered by those articles. This issue of the journal reflects this change, in that there is a real mix of topics covered. Those of you who visit the website for on-line submission,1 of course, will already have had the opportunity to see these papers, since they are now published on-line as soon as they have passed through the editorial process. You can view all the forthcoming material to be published in the journal via the website. There is much else there as well. Just published is a complete archive of the journal, dating back to the publication of its first issue in 1991. Together with the regular content of the journal, it is also possible to gain access to all our supplements, many of which have been published only on-line. Recent supplements have covered tetralogy of Fallot, the nomenclature of the congenitally malformed heart, and the complications of its treatment, as used by the different disciplines, and pulmonary hypertension. We plan to enhance the printed issues of the journal by including a selection of the articles previously published in the on-line only supplements as supporting materials for continuing medical education. We will begin this strategy in our next issue, when we publish the first of our articles on pulmonary hypertension. If you want to read the whole supplement, it is already available on our website.
Increasingly the on-line version of the journal will become the main repository for our published material, and the printed issues will be of secondary importance. Over the next year or so, we will plan to review the material appearing in these separate arenas so they support and complement, rather than mimic, each other. Already you can see video clips, and extra images, for selected articles on the web that we cannot include in the printed edition. We will continue to develop this approach, and I would welcome suggestions from authors and reviewers about additional material that could be published on-line to enhance articles.
As you receive this journal, many of you may be packing to leave to attend the 5th World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Cairns. If you are there, please do visit our stand, and tell us what you would like to see in the journal. If not, then if you have not visited our website, please take a look, and tell us what additional content you would like to see there.
