Medical journal to be available on liine (OT)

October 28, 2004

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Medical Journal to Be Available Online

October 27, 2004 01:40 PM EDT

WASHINGTON - A new online medical journal will make its research articles

available to the public free of charge and accessible through the Internet.

The Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine) was launched earlier this

month and will be available to physicians, patients, scientists and anyone with

Internet access.

The journal provides " health care personnel, their patients, and the citizens

who have paid for much of the research with new findings from credible,

peer-reviewed sources, " said Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus, a former director

of the National Institutes of Health and chairman of PLoS' 11-member board of

directors.

Readers will be able to copy and distribute the articles for teaching or

personal purposes and thereby further expand the reach of the research.

The directors hope that people in poor countries or scientists at small research

colleges will be able to benefit from medical research that otherwise would be

unavailable without an expensive subscription.

To bypass the need for subscriptions, the journal will charge scientists $1,500

per article to publish their findings. The articles will be peer-reviewed by

other scientists, just as the more traditional medical and science journals are.

The journal received financial support from groups including the Gordon and

Betty Moore Foundation and the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation. PLoS

Executive Director Vivian Siegel said that the journal will be self-supporting

within five years.

The founders started an open access journal based on the same concept in October

2003- PLoS Biology has articles available on the Internet.

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