Subject: Re: Biomedical electronic preprint archive proposal
Annette Frank (FrankA@ecostudies.org)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:55:28 -0500
Message-Id: <8580A09F593ED11189B7006097DB81DF25664F@01IES> From: Annette Frank <FrankA@ecostudies.org> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Subject: Re: Biomedical electronic preprint archive proposal Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:55:28 -0500
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999, 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?
While you are at it, check out the article in the next number
(January 21, p:195) of Nature.
Annette Frank
<franka@ecostudies.org>
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