© Robin Williams BSc MPhil PhD FBCA
The Journal of Biocommunication is on an open access platform starting with Volume 40, Issue 1. This means that all articles published by the BCA and AMI in the JBC will be freely available to read, download and share.
If you are interested in submitting an article for publication in JBC,
or need assistance or information about publishing your work in JBC please contact:
JBC Representative and BCA Editor
Howard J. Radzyner, RBP, FBCA
hradzyner@radzyner.com
Welcome to the Journal of Biocommunication's Issue 48-2. In this issue, we are excited to showcase a collection of the BCA's BioImages Best of Show Winners from
the past 10 years.
Our other JBC Gallery features the Professional Category winners from AMI's 2024 Salon Exhibition. The annual Salon represents the AMI's visual media competition showcasing
some of the finest medical illustration, animation, graphics, and media in the life sciences and medicine.
This JBC, issue 48-2, represents our second issue of the 2024 publishing year. We would like to thank our Management Board, our editors, our advisors, and our authors for their contributions to the success of our Journal.
We appreciate the ongoing support from our JBC community around the world. In particular, we acknowledge the support of the AMI and the BCA. It's a privilege to be chosen as the professional academic journal of these two organizations.
Sam Bond & Kelly Cloninger
Co-Chairs, Journal Management Board
The goal of the Journal is best understood from its mission statement:
"The Journal of Biocommunication is dedicated to serving as a showcase of biocommunication techniques; describing proven and experimental procedures in medical art and illustration, print, photography, film, television, computer, multimedia systems, and other communication modalities applied in the health sciences."
Each year the Journal publishes two issues electronically via the internet. A typical issue includes featured papers on biomedical communications subjects; columns on various technical topics, both current and historical; a gallery of biocommunication images (still and motion-media) from the annual media competitions of the consortium's Associations; a showcase of elegant images produced by an invited individual or group; a listing of association and tradeshow events, and updates on newly released commercial technologies and equipment; plus, editorials on topical concerns and interests of all biocommunicators.
JBC Communication
Paramount to the reader's interaction with the Journal is the various methods of communication. Authors' e-mail addresses are linked with their copy affording an immediate
tool to raise questions or make comments. Figures and/or illustrations may be displayed with interactive elements (i.e.: computer graphics, multi-media, animation, etc.). Motion media
productions are presented as short clips, including audio, allowing a better representation of content than can be viewed with only still images. Plus, additional resources, suggested
reading, references, etc., are "hot-linked" to internet sites. And finally, the opportunity to submit one's own work for potential publication makes the Journal perhaps the most valuable
benefit of being a member of the BioCommunications Association.
Back issues of the journal of the Biological Photographic Association from the first issue in 1932 are available as pdf documents. Contact the BCA office for access.
