title: Open Sesame: a new generation journal.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  The Royal College of Psychiatrists welcomes you to its newest peer-reviewed research journal,British Journal of Psychiatry Open(BJPsych Open), which has been created to maximise the College's efforts to publish and disseminate the most exciting and progressive research in psychiatry and allied disciplines.BJPsych Openwill maintain the same high quality standards established by theBritish Journal of Psychiatry(BJPsych). As an online journal without print restrictions,BJPsych Openwill be able to publish many more excellent articles and article types not currently accommodated withinBJPsych. The breadth ofBJPsych Openis outlined in 'What we publish' and its strength is realised in our first issue, 'Powerful papers'. As editors, we welcome both your submissions and comments as our new generation journal grows.
  
  
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  © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2015. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
authors.affiliation: , Editor in Chief, Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, East London Foundation Trust, London, UK.
authors.forename: Kamaldeep
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authors.lastname: Bhui
authors.affiliation: , Deputy Editor, Chair of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Gin S
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authors.lastname: Malhi
authors.affiliation: , Deputy Editor, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth R
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authors.lastname: Kaufman