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May 24, 2005

UK MEDICAL RESEARCHERS BANKROLL INNOVATIVE ONLINE DATABASE

From The Guardian:
Some of Britain's leading medical research funders have banded together to finance the country's most comprehensive online repository of medical knowledge. The multimillion-pound UK PubMed Central project is a big boost to proponents of open access to scientific research. It will enable academic researchers to post papers published either online or in subscription-based scientific journals, on a single searchable database which anybody can access free. This resource will complement the U.S.'s PubMed Central. Read more

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