Access to the latest research in science is a topic that medical librarians are working on right now in this country. There is a basic question answer section on the National Institutes of Health Policy on Public Access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm This refers to "PubMed Central" http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ which I is the National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Siobhan
Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402-280-4156/800-338-7657 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital Divide Network Profile) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Ourmedia and bridging the content digital divide Hi Arun, Are you familiar with Public Library of Science (www.plos.org)? They're creating a collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals on a variety of scientific topics. So far they have journals on biology, computational biology, pathogens, genetics and a general science journal. PLoS is putting the financial burden on the scientists who submit papers for consideration; that way, the cost comes out of the scientists' research budgets and it allows PLoS to publish the journals for free. Over time I hope they'll have a wide range of disciplines covered, since many of the major commercial journals simply won't allow their work to be published under an open-access model because they don't think it's financially viable. Only time will tell whether the PLoS financial model will be sustainable, but so far the results seem positive.... ac _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
