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Globeandmail.com posted an article on a new free open-source medical journal, launching in Canada.

Open Medicine is a peer-reviewed full-out medical journal with online publications immediately following the review process. Quite amazing, really. I think I will prepare something for them in the coming weeks, but more importantly I think we all should support the idea.

Anyway, below is the Globeandmail’s article on this, and don’t forget to check out Open Medicine.

Open Medicine launches Wednesday

Canadian Press

Posted AT 8:38 PM EDT ON 17/04/07

TORONTO — A new open-access general medical journal, published in Canada, is about to be born.

Editors of Open Medicine, a journal that won’t charge subscription fees and won’t run advertisements for medical devices or drugs, say they will go live online with the new publication on Wednesday.

The idea for the journal was conceived last year in the wake of the firing of the editor and deputy editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Dr. John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill were fired by the CMAJ’s publisher in what is believed to have been a conflict over editorial independence between the journal and its owner, the Canadian Medical Association.

Hoey and Todkill are playing a role in the development of the new journal, along with a number of the CMAJ’s former editors and editorial board members.

Co-editors of Open Medicine will be Dr. Anita Palepu, a general internist at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver and Dr. Stephen Choi, a former editor of the CMAJ.

The new journal will work on a different model from traditional medical journals, with no print edition.

All articles will be available for free online; all rights to the published material will rest with the authors, not the journal, which will be run on a not-for-profit basis.

Dr. Palepu says the new journal will be more independent that most journals, which are owned by a corporation or a national medical association.