http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4782 For safety professionals wishing to seek up-to-date English-language information on workplace issues, standards and exposure limits in Japan, the journals INDUSTRIAL HEALTH and the JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH represent a treasure trove of information. Despite being Japan's premier English-language journals in the field of occupational safety and health for almost 50 years, the history and content of these periodicals is largely unknown outside the country. Founded in 1963 and 1996 respectively, INDUSTRIAL HEALTH and the JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH have been two important vehicles for the dissemination of research findings, technical standards and exposure limits to the international community. This article provides a brief history and introduction to both journals, as well as describing their developmental stages and current position in the field of international occupational safety and health. 2010-04-27T05:33:50.897Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4334 Although campus-wide smoking bans are slowly spreading throughout Japan, the uptake of these measures has been suboptimal and many Japanese university students continue to smoke. Educational facilities are in an ideal position to set positive examples for tobacco control, and the time is now right for more Japanese universities to actively encourage their students as health promotion advocates and role models for healthy behavior. 2010-04-27T05:03:24.697Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:4373 Bibliometrics is the use of mathematical techniques to investigate publishing and communication patterns in the distribution of information. There is now growing evidence to suggest that the entire bibliometric approach might be significantly modified in the near future, in all fields of medicine including occupational health, via the metamorphosis of scientific communications, such as open-access, online-only periodicals, or even sharing scientific knowledge without the use of traditional periodicals. It will be interesting to see what impact such changes might have in the field of occupational health. 2010-04-27T05:01:43.330Z ]]>