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PubMed Central and the Public Library of Science
Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro; posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2001 (2 comments)
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``In 1999, Harold Varmus, then Director of the National Institutes of Health, proposed a bold new initiative called PubMed Central (PMC) designed to provide a central repository for literature in the life sciences [see Marshall, E. (1999) Science 284, 718]. Following an initial period of confusion, PMC now exists. It has a clear mission, a stable home, and a nucleus of papers. Its mission is to provide a comprehensive electronic archive of the peer-reviewed literature relevant to the biological sciences. Its home is the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), whose director is David Lipman. NCBI is also home to GenBank, the public archive of DNA sequences. The publications already present in PMC and freely accessible to the world's scientific community include all articles published in PNAS that are more than 1 month old and that were in a suitable electronic format, as well as articles from a number of other journals such as Molecular Biology of the Cell, Arthritis Research, and Breast Cancer Research. Several other journals, including The British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), are committed to join. A full list is available at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov .''
``PubMed Central: The GenBank of the Published Literature'' at PNAS Online:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/041601398v1
``publiclibraryofscience.org was established to organize support within the scientific community for online public libraries of science, providing unrestricted free access to the archival record of scientific research.
``Scientists can express their support for this effort by signing an open letter. 1177 scientists from 49 countries have already signed. Your support will help us to persuade the publishers of scientific journals to commit to giving their archival material to the public domain for distribution through online public libraries.''
Public Library of Science:
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org
Open letter:
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosLetter.htm
Thanks to Holly Miller for these references.
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There has been a lot of discussion about open access and peer review recently. In addition to open access and pre-publication review, a forum to openly discuss research after it has been published is needed. That is why I think this new and free site PubMed Wizard (www.biowizard.com/search.aspx) is great. It lets you Rank and Discuss all your favorite papers. You can Discuss ANY paper found in the PubMed database, all 16 million of them! You can also Save interesting papers to your personal folder and Share them with friends. In addition, you can see what everyone else is reading by following the Most Viewed and Top Ranked papers. The site also hosts a social network for life scientists, Lab Wizard. Take a look at BioWizard (www.biowizard.com).
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