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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