I thought list members may be interested to know about this proposed new journal… (picked up from Druginfozone)

Title

Free UK online journal planned

Date Published

18/05/2005

Author initials	Nicola
Author surname	Pocock
Author affiliation	Hospital Pharmacist

Source

E-Health Insider

Resource Links

http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1204

Abstract

The Wellcome Trust and the US National Library of Medicine are intending to set up a UK-based version of the free open-access online health research directory PubMed Central.

Currently, funding for PubMed central comes from researchers, who pay to have their papers included (this is intended also for the UK version). The British Heart Foundation, the Arthritis Research Campaign and the Joint Information Systems Committee are also funding the project. The research charity has put out to tender for organisations who wish to run the database, with a deadline of June 10.

A spokesperson for the Wellcome Trust explained that the new research directory would be primarily UK-focused, but would also accept research papers from the rest of Europe, and would be accessible from all over the world. The site will also include links to other online resources as well as a fully searchable and indexed archive

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