The Canadian Medical Association Journal has announced that it will cease being an open access journal beginning in January 2010 with plans to restrict some content to subscribers. Canadian medical researchers who wish to publish in an open access journal can still publish in Open Medicine, a peer-reviewed, independent open […]
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CMAJ on Open Access
The Canadian Medical Association Journal offers a strong endorsement of open access for medical publishing, yet Open Medicine and the Public Library of Science rightly note that there are important differences between free access (which CMAJ provides) and open access (which it does not).
Open Medicine To Launch Today
There are several media reports this morning (including an excellent piece in the Tyee) on the launch of Open Medicine, a new Canadian open access medical journal, conceived in the aftermath of the editorial firings at the Canadian Medical Association Journal.