Guest blog by Adriane Fugh-Berman PLoS Medicine and the New York Times victorious in court; Public will have access to ghostwriting documents…
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Ghostwriting PLoS Medicine and the New York Times victorious in court; Public will have access to ghostwriting documentsRead more
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Access Ask PLoS Medicine: What can medical journals do to address language barriers?Read more
In the last “Ask PLoS Medicine” post, we emphasized that the Creative Commons Attribution License – the form of copyright that PLoS…
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Access Videos on PLoS Medicine, Open Access and global burden of diseaseRead more
A series of videos was commissioned to highlight the new editorial focus of PLoS Medicine – the decision to prioritise papers on…
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Access "Why Open Access Matters to Public Health in Africa" – A talk in NairobiRead more
As previous posts have mentioned, Gavin Yamey is currently on a Kaiser Foundation-funded fellowship in global reporting in Sudan and East Africa…
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Access “Why Open Access Matters to Public Health in Africa” – A talk in NairobiRead more
As previous posts have mentioned, Gavin Yamey is currently on a Kaiser Foundation-funded fellowship in global reporting in Sudan and East Africa…
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Access Far from the reach of global health programsRead more
Gavin Yamey, the Senior Magazine Editor of PLoS Medicine, is currently on sabbatical from the journal after being awarded a “mini-fellowship” from…
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Neglected Diseases The kissing bugRead more
Trypanosoma Cruzi, also known as the kissing bug, is responsible for Chagas Disease, the number one parasitic killer in Latin America (approximately…
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Ghostwriting Successful intervention by PLoS Medicine and New York Times in Federal court grants public access to evidence that drug company ‘ghostwrote’ medical articles about hormone therapy drug, PremproRead more
Today an Arkansas federal judge granted public access today to evidence that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals “ghostwrote” medical articles regarding its hormone therapy drug…
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General A new initiative for neglected tropical diseasesRead more
In light of the current ‘flu pandemic, which serves to remind us that infectious diseases do not respect borders, President Obama announced…
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General Ask PLoS Medicine: No need to request permisson – just be creative!Read more
PLoS Medicine is fast approaching its fifth anniversary, and we’ve noticed that there are a number of recurring questions that get asked…
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Access Supporting systematic reviewsRead more
Yesterday, PLoS Medicine – along with several other journals, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Open Medicine &ndash…
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General PLoS Journals – measuring impact where it mattersRead more
Re-posted from the PLoS blog, by Mark Patterson, Director of Publishing, PLoS. In 2009, in this online world, how do most scientists…