Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) opens an
entirely new format for publishing and accessing case reports
related to fungal infection (or indeed any kind of fungus-related
pathology in humans and animal). One of the major aims of
ISHAM is ‘‘to facilitate on an international basis the exchange of
ideas and information and provide assistance pertaining to
medical and veterinary mycology’’ (www.ISHAM.org). Our new
platform will be open access, fully indexed and embedded with
the most sophisticated search facilities available. More than this,
MMCR was also designed to be easy-to-work-with and fast!
ISHAM and Elsevier have put considerable thought into this: a
case report template is provided by the journal, which makes it
extremely easy to submit manuscripts. Reviewing of case reports
will be performed within 21 day (and indeed we have been
considerably faster until now in most cases), and there are clear
cut rules and guidance for reviewers which are accessible for all
authors on our homepage. The review process does not allow for
‘‘major revisions’’ (which have been considered the blight of
modern science in general) and will generally result in ‘‘accept’’
(so far for most submissions) or ‘‘reject’’ decision only. MMCR also
requests a standardized way of presenting cases and makes a
clear time-line with a defined day 0 and all other time-points
given in relation to this day 0 mandatory for each case report.