Obesity Research

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To: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Jim O'Donnell)
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 10:52:43 -0500 (EST)

Obesity Research
        
http://www.obesityresearch.org/

The North American Association for the Study of Obesity is pleased to
announce that the full text of Obesity Research is now available online.

Many readers in Europe and Asia may find faster access at the URL:

        http://intl.obesityresearch.org/
        (Link inactive 1 July 2004)

Obesity Research, the official publication of the North American
Association for the Study of Obesity, is intended to increase knowledge,
stimulate research, and promote better management of people with obesity.  
To achieve these goals, the journal publishes peer-reviewed original
articles in the following four categories: 1) clinical care/education/
nutrition, 2) epidemiology/health services/psychosocial research, 3)
emerging treatments and technologies, and 4)
pathophysiology/complications.  The journal also publishes clinically
relevant review articles, letters to the editor, and health/medical news
or points of view.

Obesity Research online contains the full content of each issue of the
journal, including all figures and tables, beginning with the January 2000
issue (Volume 8, Number 1). The full text is searchable by keyword, and
the cited references include hyperlinks to Medline and to the online full
text of many other frequently-cited journals. Abstract files are online
beginning with the January 1995 issue (Volume 3, Number 1).  Tables of
contents are available for 1993 on (Volume 1, Number 1).

Each issue will be placed online approximately on the date it is mailed to
subscribers; therefore the online site will be available prior to receipt
of your paper copy.  The March 2000 issue (Volume 8, Number 2) is the
latest issue online, and the May 2000 issue (Volume 8, Number 3) is
scheduled to be online on May 10.  Online readers may want to sign up for
the eTOCs service, which will deliver each new issue's table of contents
via email.  In addition, the tables of contents of upcoming issues will be
placed online as "Planned Table of Contents for Future Issues."  The May
issue's table of contents is now available online.

The web site also provides access to information about the journal (such
as Instructions to Authors, the Editorial Board, and subscription
information and subscription ordering), as well as access to the Society
web site.

There is currently a free trial period for access to Obesity Research,
which will be available until December 2000.  Subsequent to the free
trial, access to the full-text of articles will be available by
institutional license, which comes with all institutional subscriptions,
or individual subscription.  All other access (e.g., to Abstracts, eTOCs,
searching, Instructions to Authors) will remain freely available.

We very much encourage you to sign the guestbook on your first visit to
the site.  This will take only a minute or two, and it will provide us
with helpful information about who the online readers are and how they are
connecting to the site.  In addition, we would appreciate comments,
critiques, questions, or suggestions from you; these can be sent via the
Feedback button found on all pages of the site. Feedback from readers will
help us decide what new features would be most valuable for the site and
how well it is working for its readers.

The site is being produced in conjunction with Stanford University's
HighWire Press, which also works with other medical and research journals,
including these frequently-cited journals: American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Clinical
Investigation, BMJ, and Circulation.  You may find a list of online
medical and research journals and their URLs at:

        http://highwire.stanford.edu or
        http://intl.highwire.org

(Please forward this information to your colleagues who may be interested
in Obesity Research.)

----- John Sack, Director,
        HighWire Press, Stanford University