Cancer Monthly is a new open-access compendium of information on cancer therapies, launched by a group of families to provide the service they wished had been available when they had to make therapy decisions for relatives. From the site: 'Cancer Monthly is the result of the efforts of volunteers whose lives have been forever changed by cancer. When we needed treatment results, they were not available to us. We have invested three years of time and considerable resources to make Cancer Monthly a reality so that this information would be available to other patients. While there are many sites that provide treatment options, this is the only resource that reports the actual results of these therapies. You should use this information to help make informed treatment decisions with your professional healthcare provider.' For more background, see Kristen Philipkoski's story on the launch, Posting Straight Facts on Cancer in today's Wired News.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/03/2005 10:07:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
