Subject: Re: Biomedical electronic preprint archive proposal
sterling stoudenmire (sstouden@thelinks.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:51:42 -0600
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990211105142.00a30100@mail.thelinks.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:51:42 -0600 To: ARL-EJOURNAL@cni.org From: sterling stoudenmire <sstouden@thelinks.com> Subject: Re: Biomedical electronic preprint archive proposal In-Reply-To: <0F6Z00GOCZG2O9@ns2.nimr.mrc.ac.uk>
On 2/11/99, Frank Norman <fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In a recent issue of _Nature_ there was a very interesting item
> of news:
>
> Nature 397: 6715 (1999) 14 January 1999
> "US biologists propose launch of electronic preprint archive.
> An electronic challenge to the traditional journals system in
> the biomedical sciences is being planned by a group of US
> scientists similar to that already in operation for physics."
>
> Apparently this is a joint proposal between a research biologist and
> David Lipman, the man from the US National Center for Biotech Info
> who developed the highly successful free PubMed version of
> Medline. Hence one is inclined to take it seriously.
>
> Does anyone know of a source of further information about this?
i do not know of a source, but that is exactly what cancers.net and
wdrc.org are trying to do. the day of the printed subscriber paid
for journals is quickly coming to a close. there is no reason on
earth why information that a scientific researcher needs should cost
him or her money since both the writer and the reader were trained
with public funds...
Sterling Stoudenmire
<sstouden@thelinks.com>
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