A journal describing present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious

Abstract

A rationale for maintaining the existence of learned journals is put forward on the 343rd anniversary of the first such journal, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and it is argued that the main aim of such journals has hardly changed since this time. The new-look British Journal of Psychiatry is intended to educate and instruct, and even entice readers from the functional and far less romantic online version.