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Access What next for HINARI in an open-access world?Read more
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Access New European policy – greater transparency and access to data from drug regulatorRead more
The European Medicines Agency (EMA – the public body carrying out the centralised review and approval of new medicines across Europe) has…
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Access Open Access to Development Data: The World Bank’s New Open Data InitiativeRead more
Guest blog by Meghan Reidy and Marco Schäferhoff, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), San Francisco, USA. The World Bank announced this week…
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Access Introducing the PLoS Medicine iPhone applicationRead more
Some smart folks at the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI*, a research center within the Harvard Medical School) have created a PLoS…
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Access What does it mean to deidentify data?Read more
Many journals, including PLoS Medicine, have policies regarding the availability of datasets underpinning published research findings. For example, PLoS journal policies require…
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Access Diving into the patent poolRead more
When it comes to treating HIV in low and middle income countries (LMICs), there are two crises—the first garners much attention, but…
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Access Meeting the challenge of health information access with open online collaborationRead more
Guest blog by Sophie Beauvais, Communications & Web Content Manager, Global Health Delivery Project and Anat Rosenthal, research fellow, Department of Global…
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A paper published in PLoS ONE (Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals) last week highlighted the very…
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PLoS Medicine turns 5 years old on October 19th, 2009. To highlight the crucial importance of open access in medical publishing we’re…
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PLoS Medicine turns 5 years old on October 19th, 2009. To highlight the crucial importance of open access in medical publishing we’re…
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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…