I never received any confirmation from anyone, messages to the SPARC Open
Access Newsletter went unanswered, and the promised features never appeared
in PubMed.  I suspect that the news blurb listed below was inaccurate.

Chris Shaffer


>From: Chris Shaffer
>Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:51 PM
>To: MEDLIB-L
>Subject: PubMed commentary on abstracts?
>
>
>I was just reading the October 2 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
>when the following blurb caught my eye.  Can anyone confirm if this feature
>will be added to PubMed, and if so when?
>
>Thanks.
>
> >* Sometime this month PubMed will start to offer open commentary on its
> >abstracts.  Every abstract will link to a database of comments or
> >annotations contributed by users.  The Public Library of Science will host
> >the commentary server.
> >
> >PubMed
> >http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
> >
> >Proposal by David Eagleman and Alex Holcombe in _Nature_, 423 (May 1,
> >2003) p. 15
> >http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~eagleman/postit/
>
>
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