Medical Library Proposes Standards for Online Journal Archives

The National Library of Medicine has created a set of standards for publishing online journal articles in hopes of simplifying the process for publishing, transferring, and archiving scholarly information.

The library's model, announced last month, includes formats for creating journal articles and for archiving and exchanging articles. The formats -- called Document Type Definitions, or DTD's -- identify and encode various elements of an article, like a quotation, a

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