CUREUS

Updated 05-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about CUREUS!

Medical journal uses crowdsourcing model: Medical journals have been chronicling the latest scientific advancements for centuries – sharing medical knowledge for the first time in the late 1700s, documenting the first public demonstration of anesthesia in 1846, carrying the first reports in the 1950s that linked lung cancer to smoking. The information has remained locked up behind pay walls, inaccessible to the general public and those unable to pay hefty fees to subscribe to or even view a single article. Cureus (pronounced “curious”) is an “open source” online medical journal that shares material, is available and free to anyone, and allows researchers to publish their findings at no cost within days – rather than the months or even years it typically takes for research to be made public. Despite the vast volume of materials produced by this $8 billion industry, about 85 percent remains trapped behind pay walls that charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars in subscription fees a year. […] with the exception of “abstracts” that briefly outline an article, the information in medical journals is largely out of reach to patients seeking knowledge about their conditions or wanting to find the experts doing the latest research. Adler, who draws inspiration from his son, Trip, founder and chief executive of the social publishing company Scribd, has spent the last three years developing the model and assembling an editorial board. Adler said Cureus expects to derive its revenue from advertising since its primary reading audience – doctors – are likely to make medical and financial decisions based on what they learn in medical journals. A different modelPeerJ operates on yet a different business model – one that requires authors to pay $99 for a one-time, lifetime membership fee, which allows one publication a year and up to $299 for an unlimited publishing privileges.

A New Way for Doctors to Share Their Medical Mysteries: It might just reinvent the entire medical publishing process.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the journal’s founder is John R. Adler (Stanford University), who serves as one of two editors-in-chief . the peer-review process involves asking experts to review a given article in a Adler told Retraction Watch in 2015 that “Yes Cureus has an unusually fast review process” “post publication peer review is potentially a more powerful way to discern truth,” he said .