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Nature launches web debate "Future e-access to the primary literature"
The communication of research results impacts on everyone involved in
science. Today, Nature launches an online debate on the most crucial and
talked-about aspect of scientific publishing -- the impact of the
web on the publication of original research. The debate is freely
accessible
via Nature's home page (
http://www.nature.com) or directly at
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
The site will debate the recent and prominent initiative by researchers
to force publishers to release archived reports of original research
into centralized, freely available and unrestricted databases.
This initiative, known as 'The Public Library of Science' (PLS ), will
be discussed from a range of perspectives, from the advocates of free
access to those who worry about its potential negative impacts on science.
But we have also commissioned articles that go beyond the PLS debate
from, among others, experts in scientific information management and
commerce. Reactions to the posted articles are welcome and a selection
posted, following selection by moderators Tony Delamothe, Web Editor,
British Medical
Journal and Declan Butler, European correspondent, Nature.
Declan Butler
Today's set of papers includes views from:
Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian at Yale University
Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier Science
Frank Gannon, Executive Director, European Molecular Biology
Organization
Ira Mellman, Editor, The Journal of Cell Biology, Yale University School
of Medicine
Edwin Sequeira, Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for
Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology
Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, USA
Les Grivell, Director, E-BioSci; a European archive initiative
Martin Richardson, Publishing Director, Oxford University Press
Robert D. Wells, President, American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, and Herbert Tabor, M.D. Editor, J. Biol. Chem
The content will build up over the next few weeks; scheduled authors
include:
Amos Bairoch, cofounder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and
GeneBio (Geneva Bioinformatics SA).
Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Labs
Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard
University Library
Hans Roosendaal, Director Scientific Information, University of Twente,
Dinkel Institute
Jim Hendler, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
John R. Inglis, Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems
Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society journals
Michael Keller, Publisher, HighWire Press
Rick Luce, director, Research Library of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Robert Campbell, Blackwell Science
Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Tom Sanville, Executive Director, Ohiolink
Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 19:17:43 GMT