Open Medicine, 2007 - present

http://www.openmedicine.ca

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Introduction

See also Open access in Canada and scholarly publishing and communication

Open Medicine is a Canadian medical journal dedicated to furthering integrity, independence and open access in scholarly publishing. Through research, reviews, practice pieces, news, policy and ethics, Open Medicine serves international researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and the public in furthering health care, improving clinical practice and encouraging open dialogue on all health-related issues."

• Open Medicine was launched in 2007
• Search for "open medicine" in Google scholar to see relative impact of journal
• Open Medicine is now deposited in PubMedCentral; visibility has improved
• Medline indexing was granted in July 2010
• Ultimately, Scopus and Web of Science will index Open Medicine

OM is open access

OM was launched in 2007. Many of its editors were Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) editors whose independence was challenged. OM aims to stimulate discussion about research and hasten publication. "We are launching Open Medicine as an open-access journal because we believe the current, closed-access model is inconsistent with the values of medicine," says Dr. Anita Palepu. "When medical research - especially publicly funded research - is accessible to only a small group of subscribers, the benefits of that research are beyond the reach of many who need it." The journal was founded by colleagues across the globe who saw the need for an independent voice in medical publishing. OM publishes original research, reviews and articles on practice, policy, ethics and the humanities that are of interest to Canadians, and to international audiences (including patients, and health consumers). Its content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution License allowing authors to retain ownership of articles they produce and readers to freely copy, download, reprint, reuse or distribute as needed, provided the original author and source are credited.

References

• Murray S, Giustini D, Loubani T, Choi S, Palepu A. Medical research and social media: can wikis be used as a publishing platform in medicine. Open Med. 2009;3(3):121–122.
• Palepu & Giustini. Open Medicine: one year of independent, open access scholarly publishing. BCLA Conference.
• Palepu & Giustini. Open Medicine: one year of independent, open access scholarly publishing.

• "Dr. Anita Palepu & Dean Giustini present talk at the 2008 British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) Conference."

• Murray S, Brophy J, Hoey J, Choi S, Giustini D, Kendall C, Maskalyk J, Palepu A. Open Medicine is indexed in MEDLINE. Open Med. 2010;4(1):1-2.
• Spurgeon D. Canadian medical journal faces threat from new online rival.
• Spurgeon D. CMAJ owner fails to guarantee editorial independence. BMJ. 2006;332:565.
• Spurgeon D. CMA draws criticism for sacking editors. BMJ. 2006;332:503.
• Stanbrook et al. Congratulations to our colleagues at Open Medicine. CMAJ. 2007;177(1).
• Willinsky J, Murray S, Kendall C, Palepu A. Doing medical journals differently: open medicine, open access and academic freedom. Can J Commun. 2007;32:595–612.
• Open medicine's WorldCat record