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About the Journal
About Communicable Diseases Intelligence
Aims
Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Australian Centre for Disease Control, an Australian government agency responsible for disease control and management of public health emergencies. The journal aims to disseminate information on the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases of relevance to Australia and the near region.
Correspondence
Correspondence should be sent to: cdi.editor@cdc.gov.au
Available file formats and accessibility
CDI is published electronically only and is available in two formats from this website; Adobe® Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) and, for articles published from 2018 onwards, accessible Microsoft® Word format. Older content is available from this website only in PDF form, or as scanned PDF by request to CDI's Editorial Team; accessible Microsoft® Word versions of content published during 1997-2017 are not available online, but can be obtained by request to CDI's Editorial Team.
Indexing
CDI is listed on MEDLINE and indexed by PubMed, an online searchable index of published articles and authors. CDI is also available full-text on the Global Health database (CABI) and on the Elsevier services EMBASE and Scopus.
Access model
CDI is published online under an 'open access' model. All online CDI articles and published content are copyright and made available free of charge. They are only available in electronic form as a soft copy and are not available in printed form as a hard copy.
Articles published from 1996 onwards are available for download as individual documents. Articles published before this date may be available only as whole-issue downloads.
Copyright: CDI articles published from 2018 onwards
CDI articles published from 2018 onwards are made available for free under the terms of a creative commons licence. Details of the licensing terms can be found and read by accessing the link provided in each article. Use consistent with the licensing terms requires no further consent. These licensing terms are the only rights of use and no further licensing rights or permissions will be considered.
Copyright: CDI articles published online before 2018
CDI articles published online before 2018 are made available for free in accordance with the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement included for the particular CDI issue. Use consistent with the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement requires no further consent. Requests for any use of these CDI articles outside the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement must be directed to the Editor at cdi.editor@cdc.gov.au
Any use outside the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement is at the Editor‘s discretion and may be subject to additional terms of use.
Disclaimer
Opinions expressed in Communicable Diseases Intelligence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Government or the Australian Centre for Disease Control. Data may be subject to revision.
Information for authors
Comprehensive instructions to authors are provided on our Guidelines for authors page. To ensure efficient handling of your manuscript, please adhere to the submission guidelines.
History
The journal was preceded by two precursor publications of the Australian Government Department of Health: Notifiable Diseases in the States and Territories of Australia, commencing in 1975, and National Microbiological Laboratory Reporting Service, first published in January 1977. In late 1977, these two precursor publications were transformed into a fortnightly typewritten bulletin under the name of Communicable Diseases Intelligence – Australia.
CDI became a professionally printed publication in 1991. In mid-1992, parts of CDI became available electronically. Online reproduction of the articles in HTML and PDF formats began in 1997. Hard copy printing ceased in 2011. In 2018, CDI moved away from publishing four quarterly issues per year (a format first adopted in 2001) to an online-first, per-article publication model.
CDI does not mail out hard copies of articles.
Previous issues are freely available under the following existing structure.
| Timeframe | Publication model | File formats | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2018–present | Yearly volumes containing individual articles | Accessible PDF and MS-Word | Online |
| 2001–2017 | Yearly volumes divided into 4 quarterly issues | PDF only; accessible MS-Word available on request | Online, per-article |
| 1998–2000 | Yearly volumes divided into 12 or 13 four-weekly issues | PDF only; accessible MS-Word available on request | Online, per-article and per-issue |
| 1997 | Yearly volume divided into 23 biweekly issues | PDF only; accessible MS-Word available on request | Online, per-article and per-issue |
| 1996 | Yearly volume divided into 25 biweekly issues | PDF only | Online, per-article and per-issue |
| 1977–1995 | Yearly volume divided into 23 to 26 biweekly issues | Scanned PDF only | Online, per-issue |
| ``1977 | National Microbiological Laboratory Reporting Service | Scanned PDF only | Online, per-issue |
| 1975–1977 | Notifiable Diseases in the States and Territories of Australia | Scanned PDF only | Online, per-issue |
