NIH to go forward with Web-based article archive (UPDATE) - Bioinformatics.org

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J.W. Bizzaro • February 4, 2005

NIH to go forward with Web-based article archive (UPDATE)

``The National Institutes of Health, which spent nearly $20 billion last year funding research, urged scientists on Thursday to let the agency publish their studies on the Internet.

``Researchers receiving NIH grants should send their manuscripts to a free, Web-based archive managed by the National Library of Medicine as soon as they can, after first submitting them to medical or scientific journals, NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni said.
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```My goal is to change the landscape of scientific publishing, which is paid for by the public,' he told reporters in a telephone briefing.''

Full story at News.com:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5563331.html

This is an update to an earlier post about the NIH's request for comments:
http://bioinformatics.org/forums/forum.php?forum_id=2926

Bioinformatics.Org submitted an open letter to the NIH in response:
http://bioinformatics.org/forums/forum.php?forum_id=2935

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