
Why should Medicine authors choose open access?
The effectiveness of mass communication is measured by how generously the information is distributed; by this, I mean the availability of general user access.

The open access journal is a solution in widening the circle of communication without a cost to the readers.
On SpringerPlus…
One important addition to the open access journal family is SpringerPlus, my journal, which launched in January 2012. This scientific peer-reviewed journal is a wide medium for various aspects of science and medicine covering all disciplines of science for publication.
We as editors appreciate the effort of scientists, clinicians, and educators for time spent in research and for presentation of their valuable data for sharing with others; we will make every effort to ensure such information is reviewed, presented and shared with the rest of scientific community in a timely fashion.
The journal is indexed by SCIE (ISI Web of Science), PubMed and Scopus and is being tracked for its first Impact Factor, expected in June of next year.
Please join me and the SpringerPlus team in celebrating this valuable group of subject areas by reading our most popular articles in the Medicine Section:
Read my Editor’s pick this month:
- YouTube videos as a source of medical information during the Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic
by Sajan Nagpal, Ahmadreza Karimianpour, Dhruvika Mukhija, Diwakar Mohan and Andrei Brateanu. SpringerPlus 2015, 4:457
About the Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Massoud Mahmoudi graduated from the A.T. Still University of Health Sciences/ Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1994. He works in Los Gatos, CA and specializes in Allergy & Immunology and Internal Medicine, and is currently affiliated with El Camino Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital.
View the full interview here.
SpringerPlus December promotion
To celebrate our Medicine Section this month, we are inviting Researchers to submit their research to SpringerPlus throughout December. Please upload your manuscript to our online submission system via our Editorial Manager site, and choose the Medicine Section.
More about SpringerPlus
Published under the SpringerOpen brand, SpringerPlus is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and fully open access journal accepting high-quality research across all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.
SpringerPlus is indexed by SCIE (ISI Web of Science), Scopus and PubMed Central. Information about the SpringerPlus Impact Factor is available on the Journal Homepage. For more information about SpringerPlus as a Journal, please contact the editorial team.