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NPG partners with Sermo, a physicians' online community

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced a partnership with an online, knowledge-sharing community called Sermo, a website that is freely available to all licensed physicians in the United States, to facilitate the discussion and interpretation of content in NPG's medical journals. NPG will add ‘Discuss on Sermo’ links to the online versions of articles in 12 of its medical journals, including Nature Medicine, Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine , Nature Reviews Cancer and Leukemia. These links will allow physicians reading the journals to create or join discussions of the articles with Sermo's 50,000 members. NPG will make the full text of these selected articles freely available to registered users of Sermo. Physicians use the site to aggregate their observations from their daily practice, then challenge or corroborate each others' opinions. The goal is to accelerate the emergence of trends and insights on medicines, devices and treatments, together resulting in better outcomes for patients.
See here for NPG's press release (PDF) announcing this partnership. More information about Sermo is available here.

Posted by Maxine Clarke on January 21, 2008
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