Emergency Medicine and PMC- Not quite there yet

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The data above reveals low representation in PMC for a select group of highly ranked journals [in the field of emergency medicine]. Unlike the discipline of Infectious Disease which has at least two open access journals that are highly ranked, the major peer-reviewed journals for Emergency Medicine in the chart above, for the most part, continue in traditional toll-based publishing models, where authors seek to enhance their academic reputation by providing free content to publishers that then control it and sell access back to libraries where the research took place. And unlike the perception that infectious public health problems require more urgent and long-term open sharing of research results to discover cures and administer care for millions at risk, the academic work of Emergency Medicine is a product of traditional hospital culture and short-term outcomes like stabilizing a patient...."

Link:

http://openbiomed.info/2011/09/emergency-medicine-pmc/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.medicine oa.new oa.green ru.do ru.ps oa.growth oa.pmc oa.repositories

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:40

Date published:

09/21/2011, 17:03