By Peter Suber. The World’s Largest Collaborative [OA] Online Encyclopedia of Medicine And Health was announced by a consortium of major medical schools such as Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, the University of Michigan Medical School and dozens of health organizations around the world are contributing to The Medpedia Project.
Und damit nicht genug, NIH (damit auch NLM?), CDC, FDA, ACP und viele andere werden auch mitmachen.
Over the next few years, the growing community of Editors on Medpedia will create and interlink Web pages for the more than 30,000 known diseases and conditions, the more than 10,000 drugs being prescribed each year, the thousands of medical procedures being performed and the millions of medical facilities around the world. While the contents of Medpedia will be Open Access, editing privileges will be limited to those with an M.D. or biomedical Ph.D. who apply to become an editor.
Ok, dann werde ich mal applyen…