The past year has seen rapid acceleration in the rise of social media, in scholarly communication, and growing momentum behind the expectation of open data from all clinical trials, but also increasing reports of competing interests that compromise the integrity of the medical literature and continued frustration with paywall barriers.
In their editorial for December 2013, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on recent advances in open access to medical research and identify challenges to be addressed in the coming year.
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Editorial
Editors' Wishes for an Illuminated Season and an Open New Year
PLOS Medicine: published December 31, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001579
Essays
Why Growing Retractions Are (Mostly) a Good Sign
PLOS Medicine: published December 3, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001563
Challenges in Addressing Plagiarism in Education
PLOS Medicine: published December 31, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001574
Perspectives
Artemisinin Combination Therapy: A Good Antimalarial, but Is the Dose Right?
PLOS Medicine: published December 3, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001565
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Early HIV Infection in the United States: A Virus's Eye View
PLOS Medicine: published December 10, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001569
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Investigating the Intersection of Policing and Public Health
PLOS Medicine: published December 10, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001571
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Improving Treatment of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Non-specialist Care Providers
PLOS Medicine: published December 17, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001573
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Malaria and Severe Anemia: Thinking beyond Plasmodium falciparum
PLOS Medicine: published December 17, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001576
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Policy Forums
Data Sharing in a Humanitarian Organization: The Experience of Médecins Sans Frontières
PLOS Medicine: published December 10, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001562
Financing Essential HIV Services: A New Economic Agenda
PLOS Medicine: published December 17, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001567
Research Articles
The Effect of Dosing Regimens on the Antimalarial Efficacy of Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Patient Data
PLOS Medicine: published December 3, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001564
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Timing and Completeness of Trial Results Posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and Published in Journals
PLOS Medicine: published December 3, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001566
HIV-1 Transmission during Early Infection in Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Phylodynamic Analysis
PLOS Medicine: published December 10, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001568
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Experiences with Policing among People Who Inject Drugs in Bangkok, Thailand: A Qualitative Study
PLOS Medicine: published December 10, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001570
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Non-Specialist Psychosocial Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability or Lower-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review
PLOS Medicine: published December 17, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001572
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Major Burden of Severe Anemia from Non-Falciparum Malaria Species in Southern Papua: A Hospital-Based Surveillance Study
PLOS Medicine: published December 17, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001575
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Circulating Mitochondrial DNA in Patients in the ICU as a Marker of Mortality: Derivation and Validation
PLOS Medicine: published December 31, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001577