E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

The following are comments on an NIH electronic archiving proposal that could have enormous positive implications for the scientific community. I strongly urge support for this proposal. The full proposal is at: This extremely welcome and

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

From: "D. R. Forsdyke" Cc: har...@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: E-publishing. NIH idea looks great! Newsgroups: bionet.journals.note Although at least ten years too late, if Nature (29th April) is to be believed, Varmus and his advisers have got it right! A proposed "repository" will: -accept

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

Here is the current draft of what I intend to send Varmus. Any comments? -- Your E-biomed proposal will help the biomedical community understand the advantages of barrier-free Web access to the refereed journal literature. Once biomedical researchers understand the advantages, they

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Thomas J. Walker wrote: > Here is the current draft of what I intend to send Varmus. Any comments? > You can quicken the shift to free access by requiring NIH-supported > researchers to post their manuscripts on E-biomed at the time they submit > them to the journals they ch

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

At 06:56 PM 5/13/99 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote: >This is not the trade literature! Authors are giving away their papers. >The competition, if peer review ever becomes a paid-for service, will >NOT be for authors' dollars but for high quality papers, as it always >was! This trade vs non-trade disti

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

These are my comments and corrections on a June 7 article in The Scientist by Paul Smaglik about the NIH E-biomed Proposal. (The corrections were not made.) -- Stevan Harnad URL for the article in question: http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1999/june/smaglik_p1_990607.html > SCIENCE

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

It is easy to say what would be the ideal online resource for scholars and scientists: all papers in all fields, systematically interconnected, effortlessly accessible and rationally navigable from any researcher's desk worldwide, for free. Both the E-biomed and the Scholar's Forum initiatives ht

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Joseph Pear wrote: > sh> scholars and scientists: all papers in all fields, systematically > sh> interconnected, effortlessly accessible and rationally navigable > >If reference sections were computer-linked to each article cited in > them, this would result in an enormous

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

> scholars and scientists: all papers in all fields, systematically > interconnected, effortlessly accessible and rationally navigable If reference sections were computer-linked to each article cited in them, this would result in an enormous saving of time and effort in researching the literatu

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, D. R. Forsdyke wrote: >sh> Archives are archives, a reliable, permanent place where all authors >sh> can self-archive their journal articles on-line for free for all. > > The key here is "permanent". Files can be deleted and interfered with. > Could you spell out what you mean

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

This is a reply to the objections voiced by The American Association of Immunologists to the E-biomed proposal. http://www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ebiomed/com0627.htm#aaoi185 Similar objections have been raised by others in the E-biomed discussion; the following replies apply to those too, mutat

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Juan Miguel Campanario wrote: jc>> I am sending comments on EBIOMED. The EBIOMED idea is very similar to jc>> an idea I have published before. I am sending an elaborated version jc>> of my idea with references to THE SCIENTIST, the journal in which I jc>> published it. > sh>Un

Re: E-Biomed: Very important NIH Proposal

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Vincent Kiernan wrote: > Dr. Harnad, > > We're working on a story about the announcement that Harold Varmus is > leaving NIH, and we're gathering comment and reaction. I was wondering if > you have any thoughts about the impact of Varmus' E-biomed proposal and its > prognosis i