NEW: **READER FEEDBACK NOW PUBLISHED** A: LATEST TABLE OF CONTENTS: 31 May 2001: Authors willing to pay for instant web access, Thomas J. Walker, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida. 31 May 2001: Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact, Steve Lawrence, NEC Research Institute. 25 May 2001: Innovation and service in scientific publishing requires more, not less, competition, Michael Keller, Publisher, HighWire Press. 18 May 2001: Information wants to be valuable, Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates. 10 May 2001: Evolution and scientific literature: towards a decentralized adaptive web, Rick Luce, Director, Research Library of Los Alamos National Laboratory 7 May 2001: Blurring the boundaries between the scientific 'papers' and biological databases, Mark Gerstein & Jochen Junker, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Department, Yale University 4 May 2001: Should the scientific literature be privately owned and controlled? Michael Eisen and Pat Brown, Public Library of Science 3 May 2001: Tailoring access to the source: preprints, grey literature and journal articles, Walter Warnick, director, The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), US Department of Energy
27 April 2001: Information access: what is to be done?, Robert Campbell, President, Blackwell Science Ltd 26 April 2001: The self-archiving initiative, Stevan Harnad, Intelligence/Agents/Multimedia Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton 12 April 2001: Electronic access to journals: the views of the American Physical Society, Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief, The American Physical Society 12 April 2001: Scientific publishing on the 'semantic web', Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and James Hendler, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, and responsible for research on agent-based computing at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 5 April 2001: What price 'free'?, Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian Yale University 5 April 2001: Position statement by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert D. Wells, president, ASBMB, and Herbert Tabor, Editor, J. Biol. Chem 5 April 2001: Boycott!, Frank Gannon, executive director, European Molecular Biology Organization 5 April 2001: Setting Logical Priorities, Ira Mellman, Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology 5 April 2001: Impacts of free access, Martin Richardson, Journals Publishing Director, Oxford University Press 5 April 2001: Content and context in one service, tailored to meet the needs of scientists, Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier Science 5 April 2001: GenBank - a model community resource?, Jo McEntyre & David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 5 April 2001: E-Biosci: a European approach to handling biological information, Les Grivell, Director, E-Biosci 5 April 2001: PubMed Central decides to decentralize, Edwin Sequeira, Johanna McEntyre & David Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 5 April 2001: Future e-access to the primary literature, Declan Butler, European correspondent, and Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature B: Authors who have agreed to contribute articles to the debate in the coming weeks include: Amos Bairoch, cofounder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and GeneBio (Geneva Bioinformatics SA) Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Lab Bruce Stillman, Director and CEO, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Colin Hopkins, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Imperial College Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard University Library David Allan, Managing director, International Press Telecommunications Council Dick Kaser, Executive Director, US National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services Eamon T. Fennessy, Chairman and CEO of The Copyright Group, Inc. Ed Pentz, executive director, CrossRef, Publishers International Linking Association (PILA) Fiona Godlee, Peter Newmark, and Matthew Cockerill, Biomed Central Limited Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, and a leading economist on the 'new economy' Hans Roosendaal, Executive Board, University of Twente Harold Abelson (MIT OpenCourseWare project), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John R. Inglis, Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems Lawrence Hunter, director, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado Martin Frank, Executive Director, American Physiological Society Matt Cockerill, technical director, BioMed Central Limited Richard Stallman, a leading proponent of the open source movement Rick Rowe, former CEO of Faxon, and now of Rowe.com Russ Altmann, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University Medical Center, and president International Society for Computational Biology Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Tom Sanville, Executive Director, Ohiolink The communication of research results impacts on everyone involved in science. Nature's online debate on the most crucial and talked-about aspect of scientific publishing -- the impact of the web on the publication of original research -- is freely accessible via Nature's home page (http://www.nature.com ) or directly at http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/
