Q. How can I publish in BMJ Case Reports?

The Health Sciences Library has a subscription to BMJ Case Reports, which includes a waiver of the individual membership fee of $270/year normally required to publish cases in it. This journal is peer reviewed, indexed in MEDLINE, and has a 42% acceptance rate. Published cases are available to subscribers immediately upon publication and are free to the world after 2 years, giving your work greater visibility.

If you check all the boxes on this checklist, you can submit any of these types of cases:

• Reminder of important clinical lesson
• Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect
• Learning from errors
• Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
• Myth exploded
• Rare disease
• New disease
• Novel diagnostic procedure
• Novel treatment (new drug/intervention; established drug/procedure in new situation)
• Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
• Unexpected outcome (positive or negative) including adverse drug reactions
• For Global Health case reports, use this checklist
• For “Images In” case reports, use this checklist
• Note: A patient consent form must be completed as part of the submission process.

Interested in publishing a case report?Contact asklibrary@health.missouri.edu so we can help you get started.