Dear Colleagues
Re:- Size Matters - Annals of Clinical Biochemistry
Thank you all for a magnificent response to my invitation to indicate
your preference for the size of the Annals of Clinical Biochemistry. 161
of you voted and most of you choose to add valuable comments indicating
why you held particular preferences and I now have a comprehensive record
of individual views which will help the editorial team, publishers and
designer during the next few months. If you have any further comments
please don't hesitate to let me have them but do so as soon as possible!
Now the vote!
8 (5%) did had no preference (several of you said this but in fear of
being seen indecisive came down in favour of A4!).
75 (47%) wanted to retain the current size and many of your argued
passionately that is was a convenient size, it was distinctive, why
change a successful design, fits easily on the book shelf and with the
photocopier set to 90% you can copy two pages at a time.
78 (48%) voted to move to an A4 format and many of you wanted a larger
print size, said it seemed to be the direction other journals had gone,
thought that it might make it less like a 'house journal' and more
'international', several of you did express concern that you would not
want it to cost more to produce and that you would not like it to consist
of less pages. Several of you point out that A4 is not international,
indeed no standard size exists.
I have requests to keep the same quality of paper particularly the cover
and quality of binding and retain the distinctive 'Annals blue' colour.
So, a good 'turnout' and by a very fine margin the vote to move to a
larger size carries the day.
Whilst in Guildford yesterday I spotted the ideal product for many of you
struggling to read point 9 and 10 print, used by map readers it is a flat
pice of plastic which performs as a 'magnifying glass' and at just 2 UK
pounds it could be your salvation!
Stephen
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