The journey is the reward

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Byline: T. Sathyanarayana Rao You have achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. Warren Beatty. Quoted in Deccan chronicle Bengaluru Edition, 19[sup] th Oct 2009 What a wonderful year it was! I have picked up the quote above simply because the exhilaration of many positives we had over shadowed all the toil it entails in getting the journal in shape and in time. Before I get to mention the Pubmed Central indexing of our journal, there are a few points to be certainly noted. *The journal is getting released each time, in time. The final issue of the last year 51(4) was in web by early December and the New Year Issue, Jan - March 2010 is already in web in the second week of Jan 2010. I will assure you, being certain of continuity in the office, that the April-June issue will be ready by February 2010. *The special supplement of Dementia under the guest editorial of Dr. K.S. Shaji is a big hit and is already well quoted. *I must thank Dr. Sudheer Kumar, Organizing Secretary, ANCIPS, 2009 at Agra for the timely arrangement made for the publication of abstracts in April supplement. Indexing of the Journal Apart from the many indexing agencies quoted in the general information sheet in the journal, the crowning glory was the indexing of our journal at Pubmed Central. I must thank our president, Dr. E. Mohandas, Immediate Past Presidents Dr. P.C. Shastri and Dr. Indla Ramasubba Reddy and the incoming president Dr. Ajit Avasthi at the outset. Dr. Govind M. Bang, Honarary General Secretary, Dr Asim Kumar Mallick, Honarary Treasurer deserve special mention. I am grateful to our editorial office bearers, Dr. G. Swaminath, Dr. Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Dr. G. Prasad Rao, Dr. Ajith V. Bhide and Dr. Sandeep Grover, Editorial board members, Journal Committee members, National and International Advisory Board members, the reviewers and the authors who made this possible. Ultimately much of the credit must go to Dr. Sahu and his team at Medknow Publications, Mumbai, who are responsible for this achievement. My sincere thanks also go to Prof Mario Maj, Dr. J. Mezzich and the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), in particular Dr. Helen Hermann, Dr. Jair Mari, Dr. Vikram Patel, Dr. Christian Keiling and others. Very specifically I am grateful to Prof Maj and all in the task force, as well as observer Dr Shekhar Saxena, consultant Prof Norman Sartorius, Anna Engstrom and those in WPA who have helped including members of the executive committee for support and advice. The major success of indexing goes to Dr. Sahu and his team. I like to quote his letter which also makes our responsibilities increase many told: From Dr. Sahu, Medknow Publications and Media Pvt Ltd Dated 11[sup] th September 2009 'We are pleased to inform that the Indian Journal of Psychiatry is now indexed with PubMed. One can search the articles published in IJP from 2009 onwards from PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmedandterm=%22Indian%20J%20Psychiatry% 22 [Journal]). All the articles will get linked to IJP's website in next three to four days. The full text of IJP is also archived with PMC (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=938andaction=archive) and searchable separately from Entrez PubMed. We will provide the back volumes to PMC in a couple of weeks so that all the articles from 2007 of IJP are available in PubMed. Older issues will be added over a few months. This being one of the important milestones, it is important that we continue to maintain and improve the quality of papers by rigorous peer-review and maintain the publication schedule so as to take the maximum advantage of PubMed indexing. …