Subject: Biomedical electronic preprint archive proposal
Frank Norman (fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:06:20 +0000
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:06:20 +0000 From: Frank Norman <fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk> Subject: Biomedical electronic preprint archive proposal To: ARL-EJOURNAL@CNI.ORG Message-Id: <0F6Z00GOCZG2O9@ns2.nimr.mrc.ac.uk>
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?
Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research
Deputy Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
London NW7 1AA, UK
tel 0181 959 3666 ext 2380 email fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk
fax 0181 913 8534 http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank/
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