Fourth Cytopathology Monograph and Atlas Series Book Titled “Cytopathology of Urine (& The Paris System)” as Extension of Open Access Charter of Cytopathology Foundation Inc

The Cytopathology Monograph and Atlas Series (CMAS) books project^[1] under the CMAS Journal^[2] of the Cytopathology Foundation^[3] to publish cytopathology books in open access. We are delighted to announce the release of the CMAS #4 book titled “Cytopathology of Urine (& The Paris System)” [Figure 1].^[4,5]

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Figure 1:

Cover page of the cytopathology monograph and atlas series: #4 “Cytopathology of Urine (& The Paris System).”

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All the book chapters in CMAS #4 [Table 1] were published initially as open-access articles in CMAS Journal.^[6-14] As one of the benefits of the open-access charter, the review articles on the topic are available as the scientific cytopathology literature as a searchable database with free access on the Internet. CMAS #4 chapters as review articles^[6-14] can be accessed as individual review articles under “Cytopathology Monograph Related Review Series” at https://cmasjournal.com/browse-articles/.^[15] The final CMAS #4 book will be available in various formats, including print^[5] and e-version.^[4]

As part of the Cytopathology Foundation^[3] and CMAS Journal^[2] Open-Access charter,^[16] the copyright will not be lost by the contributing authors but retained in the public domain with all its social benefits to both the authors and the readers.^[17] The academic global benefits include easy access to the figures and other material for teaching and educational purposes after a minor reasonable legal obligation of citing the original source. The addition of images to PowerPoint presentation (PPT) is as easy as a single click of the green button “Export to PPT” in the HTML version of CMAS Journal articles [Figure 2].

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Figure 2:

Easy importing of images to PowerPoint presentation (PPT) with a single click of green button “Export to PPT” (red arrow) feature in HTML version with CMAS Journal articles.

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This multiauthor CMAS #4 book is edited by Bose^[18] with Shidham et al.^[19] as a series editor with a total of nine chapters. As highlighted previously, all the chapters were published under open access. When the CMAS book project started with CytoJournal (www.cytojournal.com),^[20] all the articles related to the first three CMAS books^[21] were published initially in CytoJournal and then modified into chapters in the respective CMAS books.^[1] Under recent updates, the articles were published initially as open-access articles in CMAS Journal (www.cmasjournal.com) as review articles.^[2] Under the open-access benefits of the Creative Commons License,^[16] these articles were then modified to be formatted as individual chapters in CMAS #4 book^[1] under Cytopathology Foundation.^[3]

The hard copies of the CMAS #4 book may be purchased online in various formats, including e-version (Kindle), Paperback, and Hardcover at Amazon Books^[5] similar to other CMAS books.^[22] The soft copy will also be available in the CMAS Journal in a book-like format with flipping pages,^[4] which will be free for Cytopathology Foundation members.^[23]

Recently, for resource-limited institutions and countries, all CMAS books are also available at significantly reduced prices under the “Low Cost Initiative” of the Cytopathology Foundation.^[24,25] The chapters in CMAS #4 book are listed in Table 1.

As part of the CMAS books project, the future books in the series on various topics will be published on an ongoing basis. We thank all the authors for their efforts and invaluable participation in this project. We anticipate continued participation by authors and readers by harvesting the benefits of the open-access charter in cytopathology under the non-profit efforts of the Cytopathology Foundation team.^[2] The online book release event will be broadcast soon.