Table 1

Publication costs for individual journals

Name of journal (issues per year)Copies per issueMode of publicationTotal costs (Sri Lankan Rupees)
Per issueAnnual
Batticaloa Medical Journal (1)500Printed94 00094 000
Ceylon Medical Journal (4)2000Printed and online205 000820 000
Galle Medical Journal (1)225Printed and online140 000140 000
Journal of the Ceylon College of Physicians (1)600Printed340 000340 000
Journal of the College of Ophthalmologist of Sri Lanka (2)250Printed120 000240 000
Journal of the Ruhunu Clinical Society (1)200Printed62 00062 000
Kurunegala Medical Journal (1)200Printed55 00055 000
Respire (2)350Printed170 000340 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Anaesthesiology (2)250Printed and online72 500145 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health (4)250Printed and online100 000400 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Community Physicians (2)350Printed69 000138 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Haematology (1)200Printed100 000100 000
The Sri Lanka Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery (1)100Printed30 00030 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry (2)200Printed28 00056 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Surgery (2)450Printed and online108 000216 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Urology (1)200Printed and online50 00050 000
Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine (2)300Printed and online105 000210 000
Sri Lankan Family Physician (1)400Printed100 000100 000
Student Medical Journal (1)100Printed40 10040 100
The Bulletin of the Sri Lanka College of Microbiology (1)175Printed94 00094 000
The Sri Lanka Journal of Medical Administration (1)300Printed75 00075 000
The Sri Lanka Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (4)300Printed and online120 000480 000
The Sri Lanka Journal of Venereology (1)250Printed50 00050 000
The Sri Lanka Prescriber (4)8000Printed and online270 0001 080 000
The Sri Lankan Journal of Dermatology (1)150Printed137 000137 000
Uva Medical Journal (1)250Printed60 00060 000
Total2 764 6005 552 100
  • All online journals provided free access. Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics (quarterly) and Sri Lanka Journal of Critical Care (quarterly) were published online only.