Newsletter of the Supercourse
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Dear friends,
We have some exciting movement again. Ron was just up to the Journal
'Neurology', and met with Drummond Rennie, and editor of the JAMA. He
had indicated that he had set up a limited access sever for JAMA so
that the Journal can be received by developing countries for free. Ron
has been talking with the head editor of 'Nature Medicine'. Next week
Ron will go to speak to all the head editors of the Nature Journals.
They appear to be quite interested in also setting up a limited access
server so that 'Nature' can open up to developing countries for free.
Ron is pitching this with the concept of emerging markets, and they are
interested. If we can move both JAMA and the Nature Journals to open
up, then we can get most of the major scientific and health journals
available on the web.
Ron also has made the suggestion to the head of Nature Medicine that
they put a button on the journal, and on each article for the super-
course. For example, suppose there is a new article on diabetes, there
could be one link to a lecture on that topic, and several general links
to the supercourse lectures of Peter Bennett, or Will Fujimoto. This
will be wonderful, as with this we can bring research and teaching
closer together. Instead of waiting for 5 years for the journal article
information to filter down to the classroom, it can be put in immedi-
ately. Ron would like the lectures to be completely free, as usual. The
lectures would serve as a pay for view for the journals, and the jour-
nals would serve as a portal for the lectures. It would be wonderful.
If we can get 'Nature Medicine', we can get just about anyone.
We are sure that it will work as Ron contacted 25 authors of epidemiol-
ogy articles, which appeared in the BMJ since the first of the year.
60-70% agreed to provide a lecture, and only one refused.
We would appreciate any new ideas that you may have with these regards.
Sincerely,
Ron, Akira, Deb, Benjamin, EunRyong
mailto:ghnetu+@pitt.edu
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