Reinvent medical textbook publishing. Reach a worldwide audience. Get paid.

Are you interested in writing for a new open access point of care resource, Open Library of Medicine?

University of California Press, PLOS, and a growing collective of partners are working on the idea for a peer reviewed open access service that allows people to write and use point-of-care summaries at a cost that is multiple times less than current commercial products.

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Why are they doing this?

Physicians at medical schools and teaching hospitals author a large share of the content in point of care tools.
Trainees and physicians at those institutions are also key users of these, and their institutions are key buyers.
If the collective faculty and staff across these institutions write and consume much of the content, why does it cost the same institutions ever-increasing premiums to re-acquire their collective knowledge?
The Open Library of Medicine publishing initiative envisions an open access service that allows people to write and use point-of-care summaries at a cost that is multiple times less than current commercial products.
Open Library of Medicine will be kick-started with foundation grants.
When it has enough content to have parity with the current fee-based point of care tools, sponsor institutions will join the initiative and share the cost of supporting the lower cost and non-restricted access of Open Library of Medicine.
Editors and authors will be paid honoraria. They can keep or pay this forward to their institutions to offset costs for the initiative.