Open medicine tries 'wiki-publishing'

-----Original Message-----
From: Canadian Medical Libraries List [mailto:CANMEDLIB@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA] On Behalf Of Dean Giustini
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:28 PM
To: CANMEDLIB@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA
Subject: [CANMEDLIB] Open medicine tries 'wiki-publishing'

Hi all,
I wanted to draw your attention to an exciting new project started today by Open Medicine, the open-access, peer-reviewed creative commons medical journal. The editors want to push the boundaries of medical publishing in a new direction and this project aims to explore the use of a wiki to improve and update articles such as narrative and peer-reviewed reviews (including systematic reviews - meta-articles that collate many other articles' data and information).

At the heart of this project is a peer-reviewed published article on the effectiveness of asynchronous telehealth, a form of health care that uses common digital devices to transmit data from clinician to clinician in order to serve remote and underserved communities.

In addition to the usual posted formats of PDF
( http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/262/239 )
and HTML
( http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/262/238 ),
the article has been posted to a wiki ( http://wikisr.openmedicine.ca ),
where readers are invited to edit the article by adding, deleting or modifying its contents. For example, relevant new studies could be added to this "living" article and the results reinterpreted as they become available.

As an open access journal, the editorial team at Open Medicine is committed to pushing the boundaries of making medical information available to anyone who needs it.

DG on behalf of
Open Medicine editors
http://www.openmedicine.ca/