Globalization of spine care: how are we doing and what are we doing?

Jens Chapman

EBSJ has been in existence a bit more than 2 years now and has benefited from a steadily increasing stream of quality submission thanks to you, our readers, despite still not being ‘visible’ in some influential medical search engines, such as PubMed, notwithstanding our official acceptance there last year.

Let me address your pressing first question right away: both, US government officials in charge of PubMed, and our publisher Thieme Verlag, have assured me repeatedly that all of our EBSJ files are being actively (albeit slowly) downloaded as we are speaking and will be available online before years-end inclusive of all previously published articles to date. Delays apparently were caused by a combination of ‘technical difficulties’ and shortage in US government staffing. On behalf of the editorial staff and AOSpine International, I wish to apologize to all of those who are looking for our very noteworthy publications online and had a hard time finding them so far—your patience hopefully will be rewarded soon.