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Science 3 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5433, p. 1466
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5433.1466a

News of the Week

SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
NIH's Online Publishing Venture Ready for Launch

Eliot Marshall

This week, National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus announced that NIH will launch its electronic archive and publication site, now called PubMed Central (formerly E-biomed), beginning in January 2000. It will accept reports--both reviewed and some unreviewed material--comments, and data files from journals and scientific groups and redistribute them on the Internet at no charge. The final plan is described in a notice released by NIH on 30 August (www.nih.gov/news/pr/aug99/od-30.htm).

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