title: Beyond open access: open discourse, the next great equalizer.
abstract: The internet is expanding the realm of scientific publishing to include free and open public debate of published papers. Journals are beginning to support web posting of comments on their published articles and independent organizations are providing centralized web sites for posting comments about any published article. The trend promises to give one and all access to read and contribute to cutting edge scientific criticism and debate.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA, HFM 315 FDA/CBER, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448, USA. dayton@cber.fda.gov
authors.forename: Andrew I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Dayton
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D011643:Publishing / Q000639:trends*