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Open Access May Increase Opportunity for Medical Illustrators

By j7uy5 on November 6, 2007.

Medical/technical illustrators too often are forgotten.
 They add value to publications, and need to be compensated.
 So what will be the effect, as open-access publishing becomes
more common?  



It is hard to know for sure, as the whole field is evolving so rapidly.
 But Peter Suber, writing at href="http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/11/does-oa-help-or-hurt-scientific.html">Open
Access News, thinks the OA movement will be beneficial to
illustrators.  He links to an article by href="http://www.medical-illustrations.ca/2007/11/02/open-access-and-medical-art/">Tim
Fedak, which makes that point.



I am glad to see this point discussed.  



When I was in medical school, taking gross anatomy, there were a few
students there from the School of Art & Design, when they have
a very good MFA program in Medical and Biological Illustration.
 I'll just say that those people are amazing.
 Certainly, they deserve as much support and opportunity as
possible.


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