This is clearly a worthy effort -- but is Pat Brown aware of all the other
efforts in this area that have been made (by members of this Forum, among
others) over a number of year in this area, or is this a case of reinventing
the wheel?
Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK.
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From: "Thomas J. Walker" <tjw_at_UFL.EDU>
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Subject: Item from Science-in-the-News
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> RESEARCH REBEL URGES COLLEAGUES TO PUBLISH ON THE WEB, NOT IN HIGH-PRICED
> JOURNALS
> from The San Francisco chronicle
> Pat Brown, a biochemist at Stanford University, invented a cheap way to
put
> thousands of bits of DNA on test slides, helping to pave the way for
> industrial-scale studies of how genes control cells.
> But spying out the secrets of cells is not what he likes to talk about
> these days.
> Brown has a new scheme in mind: He wants to raise about $20 million in
> foundation grants to bring together top scientists to review scientific
> research, and publish it on the Web -- for free.
> "We'll just give it away" to undercut the pricey subscription journals
that
> dominate academic publishing, Brown said.
> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
> file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/02/MN97506.DTL>
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