Bengal Physician Journal (BPJ), the official publication of Association of Physicians of India; West Bengal Chapter, is a peer-reviewed, open access journal aims to publish original research papers, review articles, rare and novel case reports, and clinical techniques from all specialties of Medicine.
Bengal Physician Journal (BPJ) is owned and managed under the auspices of Association of Physicians of India; West Bengal Chapter, and Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd is the publisher.
Association of Physicians of India; West Bengal Chapter.
The Association of Physicians of India is a professional body of consultant physicians formed in 1944. Its members are physicians with postgraduate qualifications in different specialties. Currently, the membership of the association is 19,500.
API West Bengal Branch was born in 1975. The pioneers who played a pivotal role in this regard were the eminent physicians of that time. Prof (Dr) J C Banerjee was the first president, and Prof (Dr) Shyamal Sen was the founder secretary of the Branch. The designation of the president was changed to Chairman in 1994. The API WB Branch office was at 8 Creek Row on a rental basis during its inception. Over time, the members of the Branch decided to have their own office by purchasing a flat at Moon Plaza, 62, Lenin Sarani, 2nd Floor, Flat No-2D, Kolkata 700013, which is the present address of the Chapter. The membership strength is 1095, and the organization is gradually expanding in all directions.
Many city branches have, by this time, formed their respective executive bodies under the supervision of the main API West Bengal Chapter at Kolkata. API Siliguri Branch, API Murshidabad City Branch, API Malda City Branch, API Nadia-Kalyani City Branch, API Alipurduar City Branch, and API Cooch Bihar City Branch have already hosted various API activities and CME programs in their respective areas.
Association of Physicians of India, West Bengal Branch, registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act. 1961 (No. S/80005 of 1995-96) aims to promote and advance medical and allied sciences. It regularly arranges CME, symposia, and conferences. The Bengal Physician Journal (BPJ), the official publication of the Association of Physicians of India; West Bengal Chapter, is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that aims to publish original research papers, review articles, rare and novel case reports, and clinical techniques from all specialties of Medicine from physicians across the globe. The association also upholds social issues and takes part in philanthropic activities.
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Publication Frequency
Bengal Physician Journal (BPJ) is open access journal publishing three issues per year focusing on all specialties of Medicine.
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Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it at no cost and with limited restrictions with regards to reuse. Open access publications are freely and permanently available online to anyone with an internet access. The journal allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium (which is non-commercial), provided the article is properly attributed. All the articles are published, without any technical, financial, gender limitations, in an agreed format on the journal website and deposited in archive and indexing databases as applicable to the journal. All articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), thereby making it fully citable and searchable by title, author name(s) and the full text.
Why open access publishing?
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