We are pleased to announce the creation of the International Journal of Drug
Testing. The Journal is a multidisciplinary, refereed Journal devoted to the
publication of scientific research, technical applications, policy, and other issues
pertinent to the use of various biological specimens for evaluating exposure to
psychoactive drugs.
The Journal has several areas of emphasis. One is the promulgation of research devoted to
new and emerging approaches to drug testing, such as hair, saliva, and sweat analysis. The
Journal will emphasize new technologies. While papers and work devoted to more mature
technologies (e.g., urine testing, or blood and plasma analysis) will be considered, the
Journal is particularly interested in highlighting innovative, experimental, and
unconventional analytic matrices. The Journal will also consider papers discussing
findings based on applications and experimentation using these technologies in various
experimental, quasi-experimental, and field settings. "Applications" as used
here are broadly defined and include such activities as; drug testing for epidemiological
research, implementation of novel techniques in forensic settings, the experimentation or
use of these techniques in other legal, medical-therapeutic, and related areas. The
Journal also welcomes papers discussing policies, ethics, and other timely issues that are
germane to the technologies, their application, and the implications which may arise from
their use.
A primary motivation behind the creation of the Journal is to provide a forum for the
discussion of issues which have been often compartmentalized by the traditional boundaries
of academic journals. Drug testing is an area which involves persons from many different
academic and professional backgrounds. The Journal seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary
forum for discussion which will, we hope, prove useful to persons involved in various
aspects drug testing and who are interested in issues, problems, and developments in the
area. Contributors to the Journal are encouraged to write material which has broad utility
and appeal, and contributions will be reviewed with this perspective in mind.
The Journal is entitled as an "International Journal." The community of scholars
and practitioners interested in drug testing is world-wide. We have worldwide distribution
of the Journal, and the Journal's board of editorial advisors is drawn from the
international community. Members of the editorial board are all distinguished, active
researchers or practitioners who have direct experience in drug testing.
The Journal is managed by an editor and associate editor and supervised by an editorial
board. The editorial policies, academic quality, and overview of the Journal's practices
will be supervised by the editorial board. The board is composed of distinguished scholars
from the international community who have expertise in various aspects of drug analysis.
The expertise of the editorial include chemistry, toxicology, medical practice,
epidemiological research, drug treatment, criminal justice practice, and allied areas.
Submissions to the Journal are treated according to standard academic protocols for
refereed publications. Manuscripts will be received and initially reviewed for relevance
by the editors or members of the editorial board who have appropriate expertise.
Manuscripts deemed relevant will be sent out for blind review to three reviewers who will
make recommendations to the editor regarding the suitability of the manuscript for
publication. Reviewers for submissions will be identified by the editors and members of
the editorial board, and may include editorial board members themselves. Decisions to
publish will be based upon recommendations of the reviewers. Controversies which might
arise between contributors and reviewers or editorial staff will be decided by the
editorial board acting as a committee of the whole.
The International Journal of Drug Testing will be posted and distributed
on the Internet as an electronic document. The address of the Journal's web site is:
Any person who can access the Internet can access the Journal from anywhere in
the world. All that is required is a connection to the Internet and a "browser"
or software program which can search and connect to Internet Web addresses. The
Journal is created to be viewed using any freely available Web browser Netscape
or Internet Explorer. The journal is created using
Microsoft FrontPage.
In order to accommodate the wide variety of word-processed
document formats and computer
systems, the Journal directs readers to a portable document viewing program, Adobe Acrobat reader. This
software is available free by downloading it from the Adobe Web site.
Once you have downloaded the software, you must install the reader on your
computer. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 is now available. It is backward compatible with our
files saved using earlier versions of Acrobat. Any problems, please let us know.
Adobe now offers another way to view portable document files (pdf), Adobe
eBook Reader. Once you download and install the free reader, you can import
pdf files into the reader by saving a copy of the file open in Adobe Acrobat to
your hard drive and then reopening it in Adobe eBook Reader. Once inside Adobe
eBook Reader you can employ features such as reading the document in side by
side page format, zooming in on graphics, adjusting font size and sharpness,
adding highlighting or personal annotation notes to the document, and even have
it read to you.
The Journal will appear on the computer screen as a "desktop published" document
when you choose to see the articles in Adobe Acrobat format. That is, it will have the
same appearance and structure as a professionally published journal. Any form of graphic
or illustration which can be reproduced on paper can be reproduced literally and exactly
in the Journal. This includes such items as photographs (color or black/white), drawings,
graphics of any size and complexity, etc. Indeed, the Journal offers capabilities beyond
what could be done in a paper form at. It is possible, for example, to include animation,
video clips, and sound as part of Journal if contributors should wish to include them in
their work.
Any reader can browse the Journal, read it online, or "download" or save the
Journal or any part of it on their own computer system as a file, so they can read it at
their leisure. They can also print the Journal out in hard copy format if they so wished.
The Journal will publish all materials in the public domain, so that contributors maintain
their rights to copyright. Readers are free to print down copies for their own use. If
readers are not capable of doing a printing of the Journal, the editorial staff can
provide them with a copy for a nominal charge. The same is true of prints of individual
articles. Queries about copies or off prints should be directed to the editorial staff.
The Journal is housed at Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, and operates through the University's Internet connection and the School of Criminology's server.
Journal is under the joint sponsorship of Florida State University and the
University of South Florida-St. Petersburg. The Journal is completely non-commercial. It
will not accept advertising or raise any revenue from any commercial activities of any
sort. No members of the editorial staff or the editorial board are paid any compensation,
directly or indirectly, for their services.
There is no cost of any type assessed to the Journal readership. Any
person with Internet access has access to the Journal.
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