PHA-Exchange> New publication: PLoS Medicine

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"Call for Papers" to publish in PLoS Medicine.  
> Helen J. Doyle, Ph.D.
> Director of Development and Strategic Alliances
> Public Library of Science (PLos)
> San Francisco, CA  
> hdoyle at plos.org
> www.plos.org
>
> For more information, contact:
> Barbara Cohen (US):  bcohen at plos.org
> Virginia Barbour (UK): vbarbour at plos.org
>
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE TO LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL OPEN-ACCESS MEDICAL
JOURNAL
>
> May 5, 2004, San Francisco -- New discoveries about human health and
disease will be made freely and immediately available to anyone in the world
with an Internet connection -- from physicians and researchers to patients
and policy makers -- in a new open-access medical journal, PLoS Medicine, to
be launched in Autumn, 2004.
>
> "Thanks to the Internet and new strategies for financing publication
costs, it is now possible to share the results of medical research with
anyone, anywhere, who could benefit from it. How could we not do it?" argued
Dr.  Harold E. Varmus, Nobel laureate, former National Institutes of Health
Director, and one of the co-founders of the Public Library of Science
[PLoS].
>
> PLoS, a non-profit organization whose mission is to make reliable
scientific and medical literature a public resource, formally announced
today that it will publish PLoS Medicine, an open-access, international,
general medical journal, beginning this fall. A "call for papers" has been
issued, indicating that the journal is now accepting submissions.
>
> PLoS Medicine will publish important peer-reviewed advances in all areas
of medical research, including epidemiology and public health, together with
summaries of all research articles written for non-specialists and features
about international developments in medicine, controversial medical topics,
neglected diseases, and other health-related subjects. All content in the
journal will be freely available online and allowed to be reproduced
worldwide for teaching, promoting awareness of new discoveries, and other
purposes.
>
> The prospect of an open-access alternative to the existing
subscription-based prestigious medical journals has been welcomed by many in
the health research and advocacy worlds. Already more than 75 physicians and
researchers have been recruited to the editorial board of PLoS Medicine,
ranging from an AIDS physician in Rwanda to the leader of a gene therapy
unit in Paris to a cardiologist in Salt Lake City.
>
> PLoS was founded in 2000 by Dr. Varmus and colleagues Patrick O. Brown of
Stanford University and Michael B. Eisen of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and
the University of California, Berkeley. Last October, the organization
launched its first open-access journal of peer-reviewed scientific research,
PLoS Biology, whose content has been favorably reviewed by the New York
Times, Le Monde, and countless other media outlets around the world.
>
> "The case for open access to medical research is even stronger than it is
for basic research in biology.  The National Institutes of Health in the
United States alone spends over $28 billion on biomedical research.
Everyone in the country -- and around the world -- should have access to the
results of those studies," commented Joseph L. Goldstein, a member of the
PLoS Medicine editorial board and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine based at
the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
>
> PLoS Medicine will be overseen by PLoS Senior Editors Barbara Cohen,
former editor of Nature Genetics and former executive editor of the Journal
of Clinical Investigation, and Virginia Barbour, a physician and
haematologist and former executive editor of the Lancet. Working closely
with members of the editorial board and in consultation with the wider
medical and health research community, they will develop an open-access
forum for important studies and for discussion of medical research and
practice in the broader context of global health and social responsibility.
>
For more information about the Public Library of Science, see
http://www.plos.org.
For more information about PLoS Medicine, see http://www.plosmedicine.org.
>




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