PLoS Announces Open Access Journal for Clinical Trials

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) will launch PLoS Clinical Trials, http://clinicaltrials.plosjournals.org/, a new journal devoted to publishing peer-reviewed reports of randomized clinical trials in all areas of health care. The journal is reportedly unique in that it will publish all trials that are ethically and scientifically sound and entered into an internationally accepted registry, regardless of what the trial's size is or whether the results are positive or negative. PLoS Clinical Trials is accepting manuscripts in advance of its spring 2006 launch.