PLoS Medicine

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PLoS Medicine  
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Abbreviated title(s) PLoS Med.
Discipline Medicine
Language English
Publication details
Publisher Public Library of Science (USA)
Publication history Published since October 19, 2004
Open access Yes
License Creative Commons Attribution License
Indexing
ISSN 1549-1277
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PLoS Medicine is a scientific journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences. It began operation on October 19, 2004. It was the second journal of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) a non-profit organization which releases scientific content under open access terms. All content in PLoS Medicine is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license [1]. To fund the journal, the publication's business model requires that, in most cases, authors will pay publication costs.

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