“Please pay $800 to read this article”: An open letter to paywall companies

Letter from the Editor - in - Chief Please Read : Bulletin Formats

The analysis of the hyperlink structure of the web has led to significant improvements in web information retrieval. This survey describes two successful link analysis algorithms and the state-of-the art of the field.

If you had to choose 1 article to read this month ….

If you only have time to read 1 article this month in Canadian Family Physician (CFP), I would recommend Dr Jeff Sutherland’s piece entitled “Physician-assisted suicide from a patient’s perspective,” which appears on page 115.1 Dr Sutherland, who has had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for the past 8 years, talks frankly about his life and his choices, and how they have changed. And he talks abou...

An open letter to cancer researchers.

OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, PANEL DISCUSsions have been held to propose recommendations to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) regarding critical initiatives in cancer biology. One outcome was a proposal for a new initiative, the Human Cancer Genome Project (HCGP) (1). This program involves systematically analyzing genomic alterations in large numbers of human tumors to determine both common genet...

An open letter to the scientific journals

An open letter to my daughter.

The author writes a poignant "open" letter to her daughter about her experience with breast cancer, the family legacy of breast cancer, and the impact of learning there is a BRCA1 mutation in the family.