Proposed NIH Web-based Journal for Biomedical Research Information

INFO: MEDICAL: RESEARCH : MEDICAL: PERIODICALS : BIOSCIENCES: New York Times Article Discusses Proposed National Institutes of Health Web Based Journal for Publishing Biomedical Research Information

     The National Institute of Health is planning to publish a journal on the World Wide Web that will provide the public with information regarding new biomedical research. Traditional medical journal publishers are concerned because the lack of peer review with this proposed journal may permit publication of research that is not as sound as would be the case in their review. An excerpt, indexing and a hyperlink to the New York Times article discussing this issue is provided below and this articles summary and indexing will be archived at the web site for E-Carm News which is http://www.ecarm.org/ (.)

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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: ROBERT PEAR
Title: N.I.H. Plan for Journal on the Web Draws Fire Source Date: June 8, 1999
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: US National Institutes of Health, Proposal, Publishing, E-Journal, Internet/WWW, Criticism, Research, Dissemination, Peer Review, Standards, Democratization, Information Access URL: Listed Below Article Summary

June 8, 1999

N.I.H. Plan for Journal on the Web Draws Fire By ROBERT PEAR

     WASHINGTON -- The director of the National Institutes of Health has touched off a passionate debate by proposing that scientists disclose and disseminate the results of biomedical research on the Internet, making the full text of their reports available at no cost to anyone with a computer anywhere in the world.

     The director, Dr. Harold E. Varmus, said his proposal for an electronic publishing operation, called E-biomed, would speed the progress of science by accelerating the exchange of information among researchers and by vastly increasing access to it.

Moreover, he said, the Web site could be "a democratizing force" because any legitimate researchers, "however remotely located or poorly known," could enter reports on it.

The New England Journal is owned and published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It has for years had a strict policy against publishing manuscripts whose "essential substance" has been published elsewhere.

Web Sites for Organizations Mentioned in New York Times Article:

   The New England Journal of Medicine.
   http://www.nejm.org/content/index.asp

   Association of American Medical Colleges.    http://www.aamc.org/

   National Institutes of Health.
   http://www.nih.gov/

   Oregon Health Sciences University.
   http://www.ohsu.edu/

   National Center for Biotechnology Information.    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

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http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/060899sci-research-journal.html Received on Tue Jun 08 1999 - 12:28:00 GMT