Abstract
Many scientific, technical, and medical publishers today are moving from journal publishing to publishing information resources. This move is based on the Internet, where users have access to the benefits that can be offered with electronic publishing. However, a major problem in the publication process is length of time it can take for actual publication as well as the access restrictions that are often set by the publisher. The need for fast and efficient dissemination of research information led Dr. Harold Varmus, Director of the National Institutes of Health, and his colleagues in Spring 1999 to establish PubMed Central, a Web-based repository at NIH, to provide barrier-free access to primary research reports in the life sciences. Based on its natural integration with the existing PubMed retrieval system, PubMed Central serves as a host for scientific publishers, professional societies, and other groups to archive, organize, and distribute at no cost peer-reviewed reports from journals, as well as reports that have been screened but not formally peer-reviewed. This article provides a status report on the PubMed Central project and discusses issues related to the development and implementation of the repository.
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