Apart from the old "publish or perish" dictum, why bother?
Presumably the theses will all be available in the OU's repository and/or the British Library's new electronic thesis service, EThOS? If you can promote them via some of the med chem/pharmacol bloggers perhaps that would generate as much readership as publishing in a low-impact journal.
Frank Norman
At 13:01 12/11/2007, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I have been very interested to follow the discussion on journals that
>publish undergraduate research, because I have a similar but not identical
>question: can anyone suggest suitable journals for MSc dissertations?
>
>I teach on the Open University's MSc in Science pharmacology module,
>"Molecules in Medicine", and our students are required to produce 4-6,000
>word dissertations (not involving original research) on aspects of
>medicinal chemistry / pharmacology. Each year we identify a few that could
>quite easily be adapted for publication as reviews, but we are having
>difficulty identifying suitable (peer reviewed if possible) journals.
>Review journals tend to favour articles by well established scientists if
>not "big names"; many research journals don't take reviews; we would like
>to do rather better than a journal aimed as undergraduates if possible;
>and as it is the Open University, relatively few of our students would
>qualify as "young"...
>
>Any ideas will be most welcome!
>
>Best wishes
>
>Dr. Clare Sansom
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>Senior Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck College, London, UK
>Freelance bioinformatics consultant and science writer
>
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