Future of Biomedical Publishing

A medical librarian friend of mine agreed to answer questions for a week on NEJM Resident 360. It involved some future casting and she emailed the medical librarian listserve to pick our brains. I sent her a few crystal ball predictions and she thought they were good and I should post them on the blog to further the discussion. So, here is the question: What does the future of delivering medical literature and latest research hold?<https://resident360.nejm.org/posts/6339> Here are my thoughts: We are going to see more movement in the area of Open Textbooks.  Open access journals have started paving the way and now with more institutions really looking into curbing the costs of textbooks you are going to see medical schools and hospitals go in that direction once the larger universities really start committing to that idea. There are going to be some big changes to peer review and publishing editorial boards to have more transparent data, information, etc. Currently we are living in a world that questions established medical facts as false.  Part of the problem is that there wasn’t enough vetting or the ability to vet information that allowed questionable, conflict of interest,  or fake articles to be published.  These questionable articles hurt the entire profession and cause people to distrust good information.  It took over 10 years to Andrew Wakefield’s article to be officially retracted. We need to ask ourselves, would the autism vs vaccines contro...
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