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Wikiversity Journal of Medicine
Type: Open access journal
Publication history: 2014-present
Frequency: Continuously
ISSN: 2001-8762
URL: www.wijoumed.org
Social media: Facebook, Twitter

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine is a scientific journal in medicine and biomedicine. It is an open access journal that is free, both for reading and for publishing. It was started in 2014. All included articles have been peer reviewed by medical experts.

Purpose

A major goal of Wikiversity Journal of Medicine is to gather and provide free access to medical knowledge. Another major goal is to avail such knowledge to easily be used to improve Wikipedia articles, or other projects that are operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Thereby, the journal avails for editors to not only summarize existing human knowledge, but also to build upon it. It avails for contribution to Wikimedia projects by means of academic publishing, which scholars and other academia may be more familiar with. The other way around, Wikiversity Journal of Medicine can also include media such as images that have already been included in Wikipedia articles, thereby assigning them standardized reference formats, making it easier for external scientific sources to use and cite such works.

Included works are also assigned DOI codes, which are permanent links to each work even after changes of URL address. They also become indexed for search in Google Scholar.

In addition to including works for the purpose of improving other projects, Wikiversity Journal of Medicine can also accept any work that is scientifically significant in its own right.

Structure

Member of the Wikiversity Journal guild.
About the guilds

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine relies on the MediaWiki software which avails for authors to write their articles directly online. Articles may alternatively be submitted by email, and then be processed by volunteer editors.

Before inclusion in the journal, article submissions need to have at least one peer review by a medical expert. The invitation of peer reviewers is done by editorial board members or volunteers, and the author may alternatively pay for having a peer review performed from Rubriq to save time. The quality of the peer review is weighted in when the editorial board makes final decision on including the article in the journal. The journal emphasizes on transparency throughout the process, from peer review to final version.

Readers can edit published articles after publication, but all edits are monitored daily, with so far no disruptive edit. PDF versions of articles, where available, are the "versions of record" in that they have been approved by the editor-in-chief or the editorial board. Changes in PDF versions are made by review of the wiki versions of the articles, or by attention from readers such by the "Discuss" page at the article of interest, or by email to journal editors:
editorswikiversityjournal.org

The journal is made available on servers driven by donations to the Wikimedia Foundation, while editors, peer reviewers and editorial board members contribute by volunteer collaboration.

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine part of the Wikiversity Journal group.

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine abides by the bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation . It also abides by the following journal guidelines:

Virtual tour

Following is an overview of pages related to Wikiversity Journal of Medicine:

the main page of the medical journal. This is where published articles are listed.
  • General updates on the projects are mentioned on its talk page. Significant discussion takes place by email as well, so email for example haggstrom.mikaelwikiversityjournal.org if you want to join those too.
the publishing guidelines. This page includes information for authors who want to submit articles to the journal.
describing ways to help out.
the journal's page at WikiProject Medicine. This is where articles are announced when it is time for the editorial board to discuss whether they should be included in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine.
a page listing current public peer reviewers of potential upcoming articles. Also, this is where those interested in peer reviewing can sign up. Peer reviewing guidelines are found here as well.
including guidelines for processing of submitted articles.
describing the editorial board.
  • Editorial board members also get access to a private page at Google Sites where confidential articles can be viewed.
with journals of other subjects than medicine.

See also

This page is also available in Swedish

This article is issued from Wikiversity - version of the Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.