Today’s Pick: New open access medical journal
Open Medicine launched yesterday. It’s an interesting new model–an independent, open-access, medical journal with no pharma or medical device advertising and independent of a commercial publisher or medical assocation.
All content is owned by the authors and freely available to the public. Their aim is to “stimulate discourse around the latest research results and, ultimately, to hasten the progress of research and distribute its benefits more equitably around the world” by making research accessible to a wider audience and ensure editorial independence.
Founded by former CMAJ editors, Open Medicine will allow authors to retain ownership of the articles they produce and readers to freely copy, download, reprint, reuse or distribute them, provided the original author and source are credited, called the Creative Commons Attribution License.
You can find it here: Open Medicine
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[...] The discussion, held at U of T’s Trinity College, was the prelude to a fundraiser for Open Medicine, an open-access peer-reviewed journal that is itself part of a social movement to ensure access to scientific knowledge is free and content is widely disseminated (see MaRS blog last spring). [...]
Posted by: MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada » Blog Archive » Medicine 2.0: Online peer review? Facebook for physicians? on November 28th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
“…It’s an interesting new model–an independent, open-access, medical journal with no pharma or medical device advertising and independent of a commercial publisher or medical assocation…”
It’s a new journal - but certainly not a “new model”. Other publishers of OA journals might feel quite offended by this claim. For example, JMIR (published in Toronto) exists since 1999, and is no less independent, and also “with no pharma or medical device advertising and independent of a commercial publisher or medical association”. And I am not even mentioning the other 1,000 open access journals which are using OJS. As open access and open peer-review become mainstream ideas, such priority claims sound increasingly ridiculous.
Posted by: Gunther Eysenbach on December 1st, 2007 at 12:46 pm
[...] At least in theory, the conduct of science must always be insulated from political interference. Scientists themselves work in institutions that are products of politics, economics and culture. As with any other complex question, there is probably no single answer, rather an interplay of pure and applied research. See, for example, discussion about open access medicine and scientific information from a previous blog. [...]
Posted by: MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada » Blog Archive » Who owns science? on July 31st, 2008 at 7:17 pm