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Science 19 November 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5444, p. 1459
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5444.1459a
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Journals Launch Private Reference Network

Eliot Marshall

On 16 November, 12 private and nonprofit organizations unveiled a scheme designed to cross-link journal articles through their reference lists, making it easy for researchers to locate and obtain the text of a referenced article through the Internet. Unlike PubMed Central, a U.S. government plan to provide free access to scientific articles through a Web site, the plan will allow publishers to retain full-text material on their own Web sites and control access to it. PubMed Central, in contrast, would turn archived texts into public property.

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