ABOUT

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science (BJMS) is a professional medical journal intended to provide a multidisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and information among professionals concerned with medicine ad allied disciplines in Bangladesh and world. We acknowledge that many other disciplines have important contributions to add new knowledge and innovations in improving our physical and mental health. BJMS authority welcomes relevant contributions from them.

Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) is a service to provide access to Bangladesh published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship. BanglaJOL is a database of journals published in Bangladesh, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of BanglaJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. BanglaJOL is managed by the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) and it is hosted by Ubiquity Press. It is also part of the Ubiquity Press Network.

BJMS invites articles based on original works, short communications containing significant findings, case reports with information of scientific interest, letters to editor, editorials (usually invited), reviews, conference news and invitation, book reviews.

Complimentary copies of the journal are sent to libraries of all medical and other relevant academic institutions in the country and some important institutions in the abroad. This journal is printed on papers produced from pulp collected from farmed trees. This is a non-profit journal sponsored by Ibn Sina Trust, Bangladesh.

History of BanglaJOL

Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) was initiated in June 2007 and officially launched in September 2007. It is a project supported by INASP. In 2014, the management of BanglaJOL moved to the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) and it is hosted by Ubiquity Press. It is also part of the Ubiquity Press Network.

BanglaJOL aims to promote the awareness and use of Bangladesh-published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. BanglaJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada. This software is open source and allows the journal content listed on BanglaJOL to be indexed through Open Archives Initiative search engines dedicated to research, which harvest the metadata for each journal article, making this work readily available to a global audience, and giving the journals greater visibility among the worldwide research community.


Journals are selected for inclusion on BanglaJOL using the following criteria:

  • They are scholarly in content, and contain original research (in addition to other content)

  • Their content is peer reviewed and quality controlled

  • They are able to provide all content for inclusion on BanglaJOL (tables of contents, abstracts and PDFs of full text) in electronic format

  • They are published within Bangladesh. Management of publishing strategy, business development and production operation are all run from Bangladesh.

BanglaJOL provides information on each participating journal, including aims and scope, contact details and general information. It also provides Tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Most of the full text articles are also available. All the material on BanglaJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors – each journal will need to give permission for any use or re-use of the content that falls outside Fair Use. BanglaJOL is not a publisher: BanglaJOL provides a service to the journals by hosting their content online, and actively promoting the website to encourage discovery of these titles and their articles. Individual journals are also using the website to publish their journals and they welcome submissions from registered users