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Excellent idea. Do you have a peer review system?

The medical market monetizes very well from what I've seen. If you can create enough good content to get readers you should be able to make some decent money from this. My only question about monetization is if spanish medical monetizes as well as english. I would think that Google Adsense is global enough that it would, but I also wouldn't be surprised if the ad dollars weren't focused on those keywords.

The other interesting part would be if you could create such a great quality journal to be able to charge a premium for it, but considering poor medical students that might not be the best route.

Thanks for the replies. All the articles are revised by medical students, but in order to improve the system we are not as strict as medical journals (afterall, we are only students).On the other hand, weare publishing faculties-related info like common problems, so not is only about medical themes but also about events, information, comparisons...

The medical market motizes well, but in Spanish I think it's not the same than English, adn I would prefer small ads, from medical-related business than adwords, because I think it's more serious. However, we are trying some options like bidvertiser but I think they are not so powerful.

When we created a medical journal, we wanted to make it printed, and let users pay for a printed pversion instead of downloading it. Someusers agreed to pay for it, however, I don't have a pwerful enough system to publish the journal and I changed to a blog-like system to make it more interactive.Maybe in two or threeyears we can try to launch the journal as premium.

I think techguy said it all

Thanks again, vanhees.

There are a number of ways to make money other then Google Adsense. You should look around a few ad company's before you commit.

Yes, Kevin_Cox, the problem is that webistes in spansh are really badly paid.

I'm not quite clear on this idea. Are you proposing a peer-reviewed Spanish online medical journal, a kind of Spanish WebMD, or a bit of both? Sounds like you also already have a site, for medical students to publish their papers, so is your site just for medical students? I would be hesitant about publishing non-peer reviewed medical research for general consumption.

It used to be only peer-reviewed, but it caused it was too difficult for students to publish articles, because of the long times, so we allow to publish articles which are reviewed by some coordinatotrs but also commented by everybody, just like an online newspaper.

It¡s mainly focused on Medical Students, although general public can access, of course, and it's already very important website, mainly in Spanish-speaking countries.

What I was asking is which ways do you think I can get some funding to mantain the Journal.

If you are looking for funding, that's a bit different than a venture idea. Perhaps a journal like this is better suited for public funding from governments, universities, or research councils. Have you tried these routes?

Thanks, noniesaft. I tried, but my university told me that they already had a journal (an useful one, of course), so it didn't work. However, I agree I think it's the best way to go on, trying with public funding.