WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- Discoveries about health and disease will be made available to anyone with Internet access in a medical journal called PLoS Medicine, it was announced Thursday.
"Thanks to the Internet and new strategies for financing publication costs, it is now possible to share the results of medical research with anyone, anywhere, who could benefit from it. How could we not do it?" said Harold Varmus, former National Institutes of Health Director, and one of the co-founders of the Public Library of Science.
PLoS, an organization whose mission is to make scientific and medical literature a public resource, announced Thursday that it will publish PLoS Medicine, an open-access, international, general medical journal, beginning this fall. A "call for papers" has been issued, indicating that the journal is now accepting submissions.
PLoS Medicine will publish important peer-reviewed advances in all areas of medical research, including epidemiology and public health, together with summaries of all research articles written for non-specialists and features about international developments in medicine, medical topics, diseases, and other health subjects. The journal will be freely available online and allowed to be reproduced for teaching and other purposes.
