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Health and Medical Research for All: The Challenge Remains Open
The world of medical journals evokes a reassuring sense of tradition and respectability yet, as the founders of the Public Library of Science noted in 2004 when PLOS Medicine was launched, “The most reliable medical information on the Internet—the contents of peer-reviewed medical journals—is hidden from the public and most of the world’s physicians … This should not, and need not, be so.”
The new arriviste journal sought to make high-quality medical research and commentary freely available to everyone with a screen, browser and internet connection and, on the journal’s 15th anniversary, the PLOS Medicine editors reflect on progress in open access, medical publishing and the journal’s mission over the years.
Image Credit: nidan, Pixabay
Citation: (2019) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 16(10) November 2019. PLoS Med 16(10): ev16.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v16.i10
Published: November 1, 2019
Copyright: © 2019 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The world of medical journals evokes a reassuring sense of tradition and respectability yet, as the founders of the Public Library of Science noted in 2004 when PLOS Medicine was launched, “The most reliable medical information on the Internet—the contents of peer-reviewed medical journals—is hidden from the public and most of the world’s physicians … This should not, and need not, be so.”
The new arriviste journal sought to make high-quality medical research and commentary freely available to everyone with a screen, browser and internet connection and, on the journal’s 15th anniversary, the PLOS Medicine editors reflect on progress in open access, medical publishing and the journal’s mission over the years.
Image Credit: nidan, Pixabay