Open Access Publishing in the Field of Medical Informatics

Open Access – the future of medical publishing

Open Access – the future of medical publishing Welcome to the third Edition of Clinical Ophthalmology of 2007. In this issue, we offer our usual wide range of original research papers covering clinical and basic sciences. We have a number of papers on surgical ophthalmology such as Agarwal and colleagues (2007), who describe the use of the very small incision Microphakonit in cataract surgery. ...

Open access – is this the future of medical publishing?

The Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ), as a small journal that is not part of any publishing group faces serious challenges to prosper in a multitude of diverse biomedical journals. In such a complex situation, adaptations are always necessary. They include changing the editorial policy, embracing new ideas, and introducing new members to the Managing Team. Besides selecting the right articles, ex...

Open Access: The Alternative to Subscription-Based Medical Publishing

1 one of the world's first scientific journals, 2 the subscription-based journal has been the traditional model for disseminating scientific and medical knowledge. 3,4 Granting access only through subscription can place significant barriers to information sharing, thus putting research, teaching and patient care at risk. While the internet age has made information universally available, medical...

Open access in medical publishing: trends and countertrends.

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is epidemiologically relevant. Indeed, SARS-CoV evolved during the course of the SARS outbreak in China (12). Similarly, influenza is perpetuated in the human population by the evolution of new antigenic variants every year (Robin Bush, University of California, Irvine) (13). Even if the transmissibility of an emerging disease is initially below the threshold necessary to sustain it in a popula...