Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. John Adler has launched a new open-source medical journal that leverages crowdsourcing to make scientific research more readily available to the general public.
Curēus is an 'open source' online medical journal that shares materials for free and allows researchers to publish their findings. It is built on a 'crowdsourcing' platform that allows readers to rate material based on the article's quality, rather than the mere fact it was published in a prestigious publication.
Curēus joins the ranks of a growing number of open-access journals including PLoS, which was founded a decade ago by UC Berkeley and Stanford scientists.
