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Editorial
Beginnings and endings Harminder Singh Dua, Arun D Singh One ending is also another beginning. Always think in terms of beginnings, not endings. hsd
Change is natural; change is inevitable; change is essential. Change is the driver of progress. So it is with any journal. At an age of one hundred years plus, the British Journal of Ophthalmology is one of the oldest ophthalmic journals. It has changed and progressed with Time and preserved its purpose and character and maintained its relevance as a truly international journal serving its global readership by changing and adapting as needed. This issue marks another moment of change with Drs Keith Barton, Jost Jonas 1
Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Nottingham, Eye ENT Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK; 2Department of Ophthalmic Oncology, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to Professor Harminder Singh Dua, Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Nottingham, Eye ENT Centre, University Hospital, B Floor, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK; [email protected]
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and James Chodosh taking over the mantle of Editors-in-Chief of the journal while we hand over the baton that we had gratefully received from Andrew Dick and Craig Hoyt, with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. It has been a long journey completed in a blink of an eye. Seven fulfilling and rewarding years of service to the profession working with some of the finest professionals who contributed, helped and supported us and the journal as section editors, reviewers, contributors, readers, administrators, publishers, producers and critics. To all of them we convey our heartfelt thanks. We request, and hope and expect that they will continue to engage with the journal and the new team with the same spirit and enthusiasm. Submissions, revisions, re-revisions, acceptance, rejection, rebuttals, elation and disappointment are all part of a day’s routine in the life of an editor. There are no winners or losers. The journal must always win and all contributors should take credit and pride in this victory. Many readers from nations across the world identify the BJO as their journal despite
the inclusion of ‘British’ in its title. This global reach of the journal, which we hope our contribution has extended further, is what we will take with us as our notable reflection. We have seen in the new editors a sense of excitement and commitment that bodes well for the journal and its numerous contributors and readers. We envy the journey on which they are about to embark and wish them bon voyage. Take forth into the future what you inherit with care It’s yours not to own but to preserve and repair Till the day another will claim the fayre While you reap the reward of a privilege so rare hsd Competing interests None. Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
To cite Dua HS, Singh AD. Br J Ophthalmol 2014;98:716. Accepted 29 April 2014 Br J Ophthalmol 2014;98:716. doi:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305469
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Beginnings and endings Harminder Singh Dua and Arun D Singh Br J Ophthalmol 2014 98: 716
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Editorial
Beginnings and endings Harminder Singh Dua, Arun D Singh One ending is also another beginning. Always think in terms of beginnings, not endings. hsd
Change is natural; change is inevitable; change is essential. Change is the driver of progress. So it is with any journal. At an age of one hundred years plus, the British Journal of Ophthalmology is one of the oldest ophthalmic journals. It has changed and progressed with Time and preserved its purpose and character and maintained its relevance as a truly international journal serving its global readership by changing and adapting as needed. This issue marks another moment of change with Drs Keith Barton, Jost Jonas 1
Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Nottingham, Eye ENT Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK; 2Department of Ophthalmic Oncology, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to Professor Harminder Singh Dua, Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Nottingham, Eye ENT Centre, University Hospital, B Floor, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK; [email protected]
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and James Chodosh taking over the mantle of Editors-in-Chief of the journal while we hand over the baton that we had gratefully received from Andrew Dick and Craig Hoyt, with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. It has been a long journey completed in a blink of an eye. Seven fulfilling and rewarding years of service to the profession working with some of the finest professionals who contributed, helped and supported us and the journal as section editors, reviewers, contributors, readers, administrators, publishers, producers and critics. To all of them we convey our heartfelt thanks. We request, and hope and expect that they will continue to engage with the journal and the new team with the same spirit and enthusiasm. Submissions, revisions, re-revisions, acceptance, rejection, rebuttals, elation and disappointment are all part of a day’s routine in the life of an editor. There are no winners or losers. The journal must always win and all contributors should take credit and pride in this victory. Many readers from nations across the world identify the BJO as their journal despite
the inclusion of ‘British’ in its title. This global reach of the journal, which we hope our contribution has extended further, is what we will take with us as our notable reflection. We have seen in the new editors a sense of excitement and commitment that bodes well for the journal and its numerous contributors and readers. We envy the journey on which they are about to embark and wish them bon voyage. Take forth into the future what you inherit with care It’s yours not to own but to preserve and repair Till the day another will claim the fayre While you reap the reward of a privilege so rare hsd Competing interests None. Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
To cite Dua HS, Singh AD. Br J Ophthalmol 2014;98:716. Accepted 29 April 2014 Br J Ophthalmol 2014;98:716. doi:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305469
Dua HS, et al. Br J Ophthalmol June 2014 Vol 98 No 6
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Beginnings and endings Harminder Singh Dua and Arun D Singh Br J Ophthalmol 2014 98: 716
doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305469 Updated information and services can be found at: http://bjo.bmj.com/content/98/6/716
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