“Open Medicine” Closes Down Raising Questions on Sustainability of Open Access Journals - Paperblog

"One of the first open access, online journals I started reading was Open Medicine, not because I was a crusader for open science of anything, but simply because I had Googled 'open access medicine journal' and had happened to land on that particular site! Subsequently, as I got familiarised with the terrain of open access publication, I started looking at more and more journals and somehow, OM slipped out of my reading list. Still, it was a considerable shock when I received an email on the OKFN/Open Access mailing list where they had forwarded an article in OM stating that the journal was closing down ..."