Abstract

The internet is expanding the realm of scientific publishing to include free and open public debate of published papers. Journals are beginning to support web posting of comments on their published articles and independent organizations are providing centralized web sites for posting comments about any published article. The trend promises to give one and all access to read and contribute to cutting edge scientific criticism and debate.

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  • Enter JournalReview.org [1], a website forum for open peer review and discussion/criticism of medical literature

  • Under the "Basic Science" heading are a number of general purpose and specialty journals typically of interest to retrovirologists, including Nature, Cell, Science and this journal, among others. In future it is hoped the list of journals will grow in concert with interest in Open Discourse

  • It would do a great disservice to Open Discourse to promote it as supporting would be Davids against reigning Goliaths

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Summary

Introduction

Enter JournalReview.org [1], a website forum for open peer review and discussion/criticism of medical literature. How often have you had the opportunity to question authors about previously published or opposing results they failed to cite, or discuss the difficulties of reproducing certain results? An online journal club with free membership, JournalReview.org provides a venue which will improve communication among physicians and scientists and foster comment and criticism about published scientific research.

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