OHNews 2013 Readers Choice: Most visited links to 'Open Access' Publications

As we head towards the end of the year, the global 'Open Health' movement continues to grow and strengthen. Based on the number of hits by our Open Health News (OHNews) readers on links to 'Open Access' health informatics and medical publications (e.g. journals, reports, studies, books, white papers), the following are their top choices:

Journals

• IMIA Applied Clinical Informatics Journal
• Bentham Open Access Journals
• BioMed Central
• Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics
• The Informatics Review (TIR)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI)
• Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Books

• Medical Dictionary
• Physician Desk Reference (PDR)
• OHN Recommended Reading List
• O'Reilly Open Books
• FreeBooks4Doctors

Reports

• A History of Health Information Technology in the VA: 1955-2005
• PWC 2012 Report: Emerging mHealth Paths for Growth
• Cenatic Foundation: International Status of Open Source Software 2010
• CHCF Report: Open Source Software Primer for Health Care Leaders
• eHI 2012 Report on Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Studies & Guides

• Economic Impact of FLOSS on Innovation & Competitiveness of the European Union
• EMR/EHR Systems of Office-based Physicians: U.S. & State Estimates
• Government Open Source Policies in 2010
• Open Source Index & Mapping Project
• Open Data Handbook

White Papers

• AMIA White Paper: Free & Open Source Software in Healthcare
• Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Roadmap 2020
• CIO.Com Survey: Open Source is Entering the Enterprise Mainstream
• CIO.Com White Paper: The ABC's of Open Source
• The Case for Government Promotion of Open Source Software

Other 'Open Access' organizations and web sites you might also want to  check out include:  Creative Commons, Health Education Assests Library (HEAL), OER Commons, PubMed, World Digital Library.

Which is your favorite 'open access' journal related to Health Informatics and Medicine? Do you have another 'open access' publication you would like to recommend to our readers?