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"A major new ‘open access’ journal for medicine has been launched, putting it in direct competition with the established publications in this lucrative area including Reed Elsevier’s The Lancet.

The Public Library of Science (PLoS), a US-based not-for-profit organisation, is behind PLoS Medicine, which it said was ‘the most significant international general medicine journal to emerge in over 70 years’.

Saeed Shah. US Public Library of Science Launches Rival to ‘The Lancet’. Independent.co.uk. Oct. 19, 2004.

See also:
Laura Lynch. Public Library of Science. Creative Commons. Oct. 2003.

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