Journal of Maritime Medicine Account
A single account for the Journal of Maritime Medicine lets you:
- Receive email alerts when new articles or medico-legal case reviews are published.
- Submit clinical articles, operational reports and legal case reviews.
- Comment on published work in a moderated, professional space.
Accounts are open to healthcare providers, lawyers and legal staff, ship and offshore crew, patients and family members, and interested members of the public.
Existing Users
If you already have an account, please log in.
Create an Account
New readers, authors and reviewers can create a free account using the form below. These details help us tailor updates and understand who is using the journal.
Authors and Legal Contributors
Once logged in, you will be able to access a personal submissions area to upload manuscripts and medico-legal case reviews, track peer review, and update your contact details. All submissions are subject to editorial and peer review as outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Terms of Use
The Journal of Maritime Medicine website is for information and education. By using this site or creating an account, you agree to the terms below.
- No personal advice: Articles, case reviews and comments do not replace individual medical care, legal advice, or instructions from your employer, flag state or regulator.
- Your professional judgement: Clinicians, lawyers and other professionals remain responsible for how they apply information from this site in their own practice and jurisdiction.
- Account security: You are responsible for keeping your login details secure and for all activity under your account.
- Confidentiality: Do not upload or post identifiable patient information or sensitive commercial data. All submissions and comments must be de-identified.
- Moderation: The editors may edit or remove material, or restrict accounts, if content appears to breach confidentiality, legal duties or basic professional standards.
- Changes: The journal may change the site, services or terms at any time. Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated terms.
- Liability: While we aim for accuracy, the journal, editors and contributors are not liable for any loss, damage or claim arising from use of this site or reliance on its content.
Comment Policy
We welcome constructive discussion of published articles and medico-legal case reviews. To protect patients, contributors and readers, all comments must follow these rules.
Comment Rules
- Logged-in users only: Commenting is limited to registered users so discussion remains accountable.
- Keep cases de-identified: Do not include names, dates of birth, cabin or booking numbers, record numbers or any details that could identify individual patients, crew, companies or active legal cases.
- No personal medical or legal advice: Comments should focus on the article’s clinical, operational or medico-legal learning points. They must not offer case-specific advice to individuals.
- Professional tone: Disagreement is acceptable, but personal attacks, harassment, discriminatory language and inflammatory remarks are not allowed.
- Conflicts of interest: If your comment could be influenced by a financial or professional interest (for example, an affiliation with a company or insurer), state this clearly.
- No advertising: Do not use comments to promote products, services, courses or legal representation.
Moderation
- Comments may be moderated before or after they appear on the site.
- Comments that breach this policy may be edited for clarity or confidentiality, or removed.
- Serious or repeated breaches may lead to suspension or closure of user accounts.
Comments represent the views of individual contributors, not necessarily those of the journal, editors, institutions or sponsors. They are not peer-reviewed content.
Privacy (Summary)
We take privacy seriously. This is a short summary; the full policy remains available via the link in the footer.
- What we collect: When you create an account, we collect your name, email, country, professional category and any optional details you choose to provide.
- How we use it: We use this information to manage your account, send you the email alerts you select, support submissions and moderate comments.
- Sharing: We do not sell your personal data. We share it only where needed to run the website (for example with secure hosting providers or email services) or where required by law.
- Control: You can update your details or change your email preferences in your account, and you can contact us if you want to correct or remove information.
- Security: We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect your data, but no online system can be guaranteed completely secure.
For full details, please see the dedicated Privacy Policy.