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Occupational and Environmental Medicine passed several notable milestones in 2009, beginning with the appointment of a new editorial team after the previous editor in chief, Keith Palmer, stepped down at the end of 2008.
In July, we announced1 that the entire back archive of OEM and the British Journal of Industrial Medicine, right back to volume 1, number 1 in 1944, was freely available to the research community through our web site (http://oem.bmj.com/content/by/year). The extraordinary value of this resource was emphasised in three insightful editorials in the same issue highlighting groundbreaking papers published during the journal's long history.2–4
We announced another important development in October, when we reported that OEM's impact …