Doing Medical Journals Differently
Open Medicine, Open Access, and Academic Freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14784953 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Willinsky (0000-0001-6192-8687, Stanford University and the University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Sally Murray (The University of Notre Dame Australia), Claire Kendall (0000-0003-2686-1135, University of Ottawa), Anita Palepu (0000-0002-7881-4800, University of British Columbia) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 595-612 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0705-3657 • E-ISSN: 1499-6642 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22230/cjc.2007v32n3a1952 |
| OpenAlex | W1499582389 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
With considerable attention now being paid within scholarly communications to publication models that increase access to research, the launch of the open access journal Open Medicine demonstrates the contribution that open access, in all of its various economic models, can make to scholarly traditions of editorial independence, intellectual integrity, and academic freedom. This paper details the history of Open Medicine, which was born of an editorial-interference incident in the field of medical publishing, and offers a case study of the current political economy of academic publishing. This new journal demonstrates how open access, in combination with open source publishing and management software, enables new journals to more readily protect the academic freedom of researchers and scholars. As we argue, this method of publishing provides a venue for the emergence of new approaches, ideas, and independence from sources of competing interests in scholarly publishing
Academic freedom · Electronic publishing · Field (mathematics · Independence (probability theory · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Media studies · Open access publishing · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Publishing · Scholarly communication · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Academic Publishing and Open Access · Computer Science · Law · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |