Open Medicine is a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access general medical journal. The mission of Open Medicine is to facilitate the equitable global dissemination of high-quality health research; to promote international dialogue and collaboration on health issues; to improve clinical practice; and to expand and deepen the understanding of health and health care. The Journal will examine issues relevant to health and clinical medicine both in Canada and internationally.

Check out Open Medicine’s first offering: Vol 1, No 1 (2007) including the editorial Why Open Medicine? by James Maskalyk, for the Editors of Open Medicine.

The Open Medicine copyright policy reads:

“Open Medicine applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Licence to works we publish, because we believe that there should be no financial barriers to access to information that can benefit medical practice.

We also believe that authors should retain copyright to the article they have worked so hard to produce. This Creative Commons licence means that anyone is able to freely copy, download, reprint, reuse, distribute, display or perform the work we publish. They are also free to make derivative works (alter, transform, or build upon) so long as they distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one. Any derivative or non-derivative work must be attributed to the author and to Open Medicine.

Commercial use of the content published in Open Medicine is not permitted. Any of these conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder, including the right to modification or commercial distribution. These conditions do not negate or supersede Fair Use laws in any country.”