NIH May Use the Internet to Distribute Findings of Research Financed by Its Grants

The National Institutes of Health is considering a proposal to use the Internet for disseminating papers generated by biomedical researchers who have received N.I.H. grants.

Bypassing paper journals could save the agency "millions of dollars," N.I.H. Director Harold E. Varmus told lawmakers at a budget hearing in March. Researchers spend hundreds of dollars of their N.I.H. awards on subscriptions to scientific journals, he

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