PLOS Medicine: Editors' Wishes for an Illuminated Season and an Open New Year

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-01-03

Summary:

"For our readers who find their way to this PLOS Medicine editorial on its publication day, it will be New Year's Eve, that traditional boundary between past and future. Perhaps this holiday is itself a precursor of medical research, being an example of how careful observation of nature shapes human activity; it comes on a day when ancient empiricists (in the Northern hemisphere, anyway) might have felt relief at good evidence that winter days were indeed going to get lighter. It's been a busy season for extending the light of scientific understanding through access to its reports. Broadly conceived, scientific research can explore the universe from its greatest expanses to it minutest components, but medical research, if it is to be worthy of the name, has to find its way back to the human body in its dignities and privacies, the mind's motivation towards meaningful activity, and the intricate social institutions that shape our responses to illness. Looking forward, we see great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them ..."

Link:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001579?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosmedicine%2FNewArticles+(PLOS+Medicine+-+New+Articles)

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oa.new oa.data oa.advocacy oa.peer_review oa.crowd oa.quality oa.alltrials oa.social_networks oa.pubmed_commons oa.editorials oa.clinical_trials oa.pharma

Date tagged:

01/03/2014, 10:11

Date published:

01/03/2014, 05:11