tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " The value of Institute of Human Virology meeting abstracts and beyond"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The value of Institute of Human Virology meeting abstracts and beyond | Retrovirology BioMed Central Editorial Open Access The value of Institute of Human Virology meeting abstracts and beyond Kuan-Teh Jeang Address The National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kj7e@ Corresponding author Published 07 December 2005 Received 29 November 2005 Accepted 07 December 2005 Retrovirology 2005 2 74 doi 1742-4690-2-74 H This article is available from http content 2 1 74 2005 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This month Retrovirology publishes the meeting abstracts from the 10th annual Institute of Human Virology conference held August 29th to September 2nd 2005 in Baltimore Maryland USA. In this editorial the rationale for publishing meeting abstracts is discussed. To celebrate the 10th annual meeting of the Institute of Human Virology IHV Retrovirology publishes this month a supplement 1 which includes 315 abstracts of presentations that took place August 29th to September 2nd 2005 in Baltimore Maryland USA. This compilation of meeting abstracts as with all other items published in Retrovirology will be listed in PubMed indexed in MedLine and permanently archived in PubMed Central. The IHV abstracts will be available for all to read in an unrestricted Open Access manner. This latter privilege is important because fully two-thirds of the users of free and open data bases such as PubMed are in fact not academics. The users may be patients students teachers or healthcare professionals and they would be barred from information-access by a fee-based format. Is there value to publishing Meeting Abstracts On several levels the answer appears to be yes . While the IHV abstracts are the first of its kind for .