Medical Publishing for an N of One

April 2, 2011

New technologies and mind-sets are required for information delivery in the age of genomics. Science and medical journals are so 20th century. The Internet changes everything, they say. Well, maybe not everything, yet. The number of articles in medical and scientific periodicals is still fundamentally a product of the number of paper pages funded by the publishing entity. And subscription-only access has proven to be virtually unyielding, despite the leadership of open-access pioneers BMJ, JMIR, Medscape, BioMedCentral, PubMedCentral, and PLoS. The much criticized peer-review system remains virtually intact since its adoption in medical journals in the 18th century. (The Scientist)