I had no trouble obtaining free access Nature's debate page at: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
But, I found it more intelligible when I used Internet Explorer 5 than when I used Netscape Communicator 4.76. The website seems still to be under construction? There's a related article by Tony Delamothe in the April 7, 2001 online issue of BMJ, at: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7290/818/d "PubMed Central increases its appeal". Some excerpts: "Now PubMed Central is prepared to link out to publisher' sites for the full text". "The conditions are that publishers must make this content freely available from their own sites within a year, but preferably within six months, of publication. If publishers stop making content freely available from their sites PubMed Central will provide it instead". "Publishers will still need to submit the full text of articles to PubMed Central to allow more sophisticated indexing and searching than is possible using abstracts alone. Although these new functions are yet to materialise, it was their prospect that led PubMed Central's architects originally to propose a central rather than a distributed repository of articles". Jim Till University of Toronto
