More on the launch of PLoS Medicine

Bobby Pickering, Medical Journals to get open access rival, Information World Review, May 22, 2004. On PLoS Medicine, to launch later this fall. Excerpt: "The PLoS launched its first open access journal, PLoS Biology, last October to some critical acclaim. Nobel prize winner Joseph Goldstein --a member of the editorial board of the new journal-- said that the need for making medical research freely available was even more pressing than for biological research. Goldstein said: 'The National Institutes of Health in the US alone spends over $28 billion on biomedical research. Everyone in the country, and around the world, should have access to the results of those studies.' "