[medinformatics] New Peer-Reviewed Online Medical Journal Debuts

[Healthcare Informatics News]

A new online medical journal will make its research articles available to the public free of
charge and accessible through the Internet. From AP/USA Today:


The Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine) was launched earlier this
month and will be available to physicians, patients, scientists and anyone with Internet access.

The journal provides “health care personnel, their patients, and the citizens who have paid for much of the
research with new findings from credible, peer-reviewed sources,” said Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus, a former
director of the National Institutes of Health and chairman of PLoS’ 11-member board of directors.

Readers will be able to copy and distribute the articles for teaching or personal purposes and thereby further
expand the reach of the research. The directors hope that people in poor countries or scientists at small research
colleges will be able to benefit from medical research that otherwise would be unavailable without an expensive
subscription.

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