Medical journal, the Medscape Journal of Medicine (MJM), owned by WebMD, will not publish new papers hence forth, it has been reported. The announcement was made by Editor-in-Chief George Lundberg and colleagues. MJM believes it can provide the most value to its members by focusing on its role as an aggregator and interpreter of medical information and not as the primary source for original scientific articles. The journal's archives will remain live at Medscape.
Established in 1999, MJM was among the first open access medical journals to be published. It published original research, video commentaries and even letters "to help clean up the messes" made by other medical journals.
MJM started publication before BioMed Central (BMC) and Public Library of Science (PLoS). But unlike BMC and PLoS, MJM did not charge author or publication fees, which is generally paid out of research grants, and are waived for those in developing countries.
