More on CMAJ and Open Medicine

David Spurgeon, Canadian medical journal faces threat from new online rival, BMJ, August 12, 2006. Only the first 150 words are accessible to non-subscribers. Excerpt:

The journal of the Canadian Medical Association, CMAJ, whose editor and deputy editor were dismissed in February in a fight over editorial independence (BMJ 2006;332: 503 [Free Full Text]), may have to compete with a new open access journal. It is being created by former CMAJ editors, including the deputy editor, Anne-Marie Todkill, and editorial board members.

The new journal, Open Medicine, is a "Canadian health and clinical medicine journal dedicated to furthering integrity, independence, and open access in scholarly publishing," says its website. The site is currently under development, although the journal is accepting and reviewing manuscripts.