Podcasts from AJHP!
More than a year ago. I lobbied AJHP to consider podcasts. I even went to the extreme to enter a resolution to the House of Delegates to include podcasts. In a series of public and private communications the Editor of AJHP had 'poor me' reasons why they can not possibly produce podcasts; too expensive, no staff, no expertise, oh poor me. Dude: Newsflash, print media is on life support. I am overjoyed that he was overruled and someone saw the light.
AJHP Podcasts Feature Authors of Upcoming Articles
Readers may now listen to AJHP podcasts that feature brief interviews with authors of upcoming AJHP articles. Each podcast is 10-15 minutes long and provides additional details about the authors' work and its implications on practice. Readers may listen to these podcasts as streaming audio at www.ajhp.org or subscribe to them through iTunes. Feedback or comments regarding this service can be sent to the Journal's editorial staff at ajhp@ashp.org.
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A step in the right direction, albeit a little slow
Podcasts. What'll they think of next? ASHP starting to do Podcasts is like cliff diving for some people; scary, but exhilarating.
Thanks for sharing John.
Glad AJHP has added podcasts; balance
John - I am glad you helped push to make AJHP podcasts happen. I know some of us have been waiting awhile. To that end I wrote a paper for AJHP on biomedical podcasts a little over two years ago (Am J Health Syst Pharm 2008;65(22):2155-8). I tried nudging the Journal via indirect channels and eventually within the text of the article itself: "Unfortunately, no pharmacy-focused, peer-reviewed journal provides an accompanying podcast."
While the pace of the changes has not been ideal, I would like to point out the the Editor at AJHP has historically allowed the Journal to serve as a venue to discuss these issues - even if he disagrees with them. A second example is the article on open access publishing (Am J Health Syst Pharm 2008;65(16):1539-44)...which he admittedly wrote an editorial to accompany that contradicted many of my points.
However, the takeaway for me is that exploration of these topics is provided for in the Journal and sometimes action is also taken - such as with podcasts and the rapid response feature.
Kevin
(Disclosure: I am a member of the AJHP Editorial Board.)