September 17, 1999

The New Scientific Publishing Wars

By LANCE SULTZBAUGH

This spring, Harold E. Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, proposed the creation of an Internet archive of papers by researchers in the biological sciences and medicine, to be called E-biomed. The N.I.H. has recently modified the proposal, in response to critical comments from many sources, and has changed the name to PubMed Central.

When E-biomed was first proposed, critics raged in the pages of such prestigious journals as Nature, arguing

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