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Preface

1. BSK

2. The Amedeo Story

3. HIV.NET

4. HIV Medicine

5. Flying Publisher

6. Free Medical Information

7. Amedeo Textbook Awards

Perspectives


The Awards

Preface

Rationale

Awards

Rules and Conditions

Application

Books

Exclusive Sponsorship

Donations

 
We'll inform you

Privacy

About

5. Flying Publisher

by Attilio Baghino

Amedeo is also the parent site of Free Medical Journals and FreeBooks4Doctors - the development of these websites was a by-product of the work on Amedeo. Another Amedeo-derived web service is Medicine on Earth, where more than 2,000 Amedeo subscribers describe themselves and their work. All these Amedeo websites have now been grouped under the Flying Publisher logo.

The mainstay of Flying Publisher's philosophy is that the promotion of free circulation of top quality medical information will ultimately lead to an increase in the quality of medical care. The medical textbooks are available in hard copy for a price, and on the Internet free-of-charge. They are copyright free, and have been translated into a number of languages. The Flying Publisher website includes links to HIV Medicine, Influenza Report, and SARS Reference as well as the links to translations into other languages.

The philosophy of Flying Publisher is summarized in three messages of the homepage:

1. Before the end of this decade, medical publishing will undergo a revolutionary transformation. The Internet will provide us with an unprecedented wealth of state-of-the-art medical information. The ready availability of this information will have a tremendous impact on medical practice and quality of life.

2. If you are a passionate clinician or researcher and you write, you have an extraordinary opportunity to speak directly to your audience. Put your books on the Internet! A little bit of knowledge about the basics of word processing, and a student capable of preparing the information for the Internet is sufficient to render your text visible to the world.

3. Put your writings on the Internet for free. You will have an immense number of readers and you will establish a relationship with them. The spirit of science is to share information. Be part of it.

   The position of Flying Publisher in the Amedeo Galaxy is shown in figure 5.1.

Free Medical Journals

Free Medical Journals (FMJ) was launched in late February 2000, days before the inflation of the Internet bubble. Within a year, it had 15,000 visitors per day. In early 2007, these figures stabilized to around 7,000 daily visitors.

FMJ is a simplistic website: it only produces a list of free journals. Initially founded by Bernd Sebastian Kamps (BSK), Sylvie Sou ran it until 2004. Now it is back under BSK again. Most articles from the journals listed at FMJ are freely available one to 6 months after publication. The popularity of medical journals is shown in Table 5.1.

According to BSK, following the FMJ website is no fun, but with so many visitors, noblesse oblige. You cannot shut down a website which has > 7,000 visitors per day. The mailing list of more than 30,000 people also shows a clear need for future commitment. The show must go on.

FreeBooks4Doctors.com

FreeBooks4Doctors (FB4D), created in January 2002, offers a list of more than 600 free medical textbooks. The subscribers total 20,000, and on average, 2,000 visitors link to the site every day. FB4D is likely to become even more important as free books become more widespread following the announcements of more Amedeo Textbook Awards (see Chapter 7, page *).

Medicine on Earth

Medicine on Earth is directly linked to Amedeo. Those who subscribed one year ago or earlier may add their CV and photo to the website. Optional information includes a list of no more than 20 publications listed on the PubMed website.

Figure 5.1. The Amedeo Galaxy.

Figure 5.2. Patricia Bourcillier and Bernd Sebastian Kamps, Paris 2006 (Nicola Desogus Photo).

* Number of accesses from the Free Medical Journals website (May 2005 through November 2006)

GoldenLinks4Doctors

Amedeo's GoldenLinks4Doctors (GL4D) proposes a collection of outstanding medical websites. The websites were initially ranked by monthly - and later quarterly - polls taken from members of the Amedeo Literature Service. In the future, the polls will take place once a year. The next voting period extends from September 20^th, 2007 through December 20^th, 2007.

GL4D was created in 2004. The inclusion criteria for medical websites are:

• Medical journals should give access to full text of all original articles at least one year old and older (better: six months; see the policy of the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA).
• All other websites should be free.
• Access to the websites should not require previous registration. Exceptions to this rule will be made only in selected cases.

Only members of the Amedeo Literature Service are eligible to participate in the monthly polls. An Amedeo member is someone who subscribes to at least one of Amedeo's free weekly newsletters. Currently, the voting right is restricted to the 107,381 individuals who were members of Amedeo on February 15^th, 2004.

To encourage Amedeo subscribers to vote, the Amedeo team sent out about 6,000 invitations for any single poll. As a result, more than 90 % of voters were different from one ballot to another. Interestingly, although there have been 20 polls over a three-year period (see the archive), PubMed always ended up at the top of the list; Amedeo was always second; and the following five websites were always the same, although in a different order:

1. PubMed
• Amedeo
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Medscape
• PubMed Central
• Free Medical Journals
• British Medical Journal




Miscellaneous

The Flying Publisher website also lists some German books edited by Patricia Bourcillier and BSK:

1. Decamore
• Französisch zwischen den Hügeln der Venus und den Lenden Adonis‘
• Italienisch zwischen den Hügeln der Venus und den Lenden Adonis‘

 

In addition, the site lists some of the other books published by
Patricia Bourcillier:

1. Magersucht & Androgynie (German)
• Sardegna Madre (French)
• Androgynie et Anorexie (French)





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