With the era of open source, micro-blogging, stumbling and tweeting now upon us - I, as an altruistic educator, researcher and medical professional bathe in the warm surge of ‘idealistic’ sharing’ that washes over me…but I have questions…so many questions…
What is the future/role of major publishing companies in light of open access; self-publishing and copyright free electronic information? When we write articles, perform research, write lectures and devise eLearning programmes - how much of this material ‘belongs’ to the author? What constitutes copyright for the educating physician?
There is ‘evolution’ and ‘revolution’ afoot.
Read the full article on ‘Evolution and Revolution in Medical Publishing‘ at the 28 hour Day Diet.
totally agree…. and it’s been a long time coming.
Peer reviewing is biased and often keeps innovative research hidden to the world at large.
It’s not surprising that tech savvy doctors agree. the problem is that most experienced doctors have spent the last 5 years learning to use email and aren’t able to go any further.
I’ve no doubt that this is the direction that we’re going in….. it’s going to take time.
Science-Based Medicine » Open-Access Peer Review: Increasing the Noise To Signal Ratio // Dec 4, 2008 at 5:00 pm
[...] a similar logical leap is being made about online health information. It goes something like this: Peer reviewing is biased and often keeps innovative research hidden to the world at large, therefore the best kind of peer review is open-access where anyone in the world can [...]