Abstract
Despite hand-wringing on the part of some publishers and skepticism that the National Institutes of Health could actually pull it off, the electronic publishing web site PubMed Central (http://www. pubmedcentral.nih.gov) is scheduled to go live on Jan. 31, says Elizabeth A Pope, staff scientist at NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in Bethesda, Md. For now, the site will focus on the life sciences and related disciplines, though addition of the physical sciences is being considered. NCBI is spearheading the PubMed Central project now that its champion, Harold E. Varmus, has stepped down as NIH director. Meanwhile, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) continues to lead an effort to start up a similar life sciences site called E-Biosci. PubMed Central is intended to provide online access to published research papers for free (C&EN, Sept. 6, 1999, page 11). Users will locate these full-text articles via PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's online searching service. ...
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