AFRO-NETS> Publish free on BioMed Central (2)

[Tom Poe <tompoe@source.net>]

Publish free on BioMed Central (2)
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Publish free on BioMed Central
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> 
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/
> 
> BioMed Central is a collection of peer-reviewed journals that publish 
> biomedical research free of charge and immediately on the internet. 
> As well as publishing research submitted to its own journals, BioMed 
> Central also helps researchers wanting to start new, open access 
> journals by providing technical support, while editorial control re-
> mains with the scientists. 
> 

Yes, I think this is nice. Wonder, though, how this rubs up against 
our funded research, esp. private industry. I also couldn't help won-
dering some about the point mentioned regarding the site's revenues 
coming from advertisers. Actually, this approach is exactly what will 
be truly marvelous when the world community finally gets the regula-
tory authorities and private industry to make the shift to Electronic 
Oversight, thus shifting the process into controlled postmarket sur-
veillance. When that eventually takes place, everyone wins, and the 
pharmaceutical industry will no longer exhibit its present paranoia 
over scientific investigators publishing "company secrets". 

Just my thoughts,
Tom Poe
mailto:tompoe@source.net

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