Today's New York Times has an article about this very subject.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/060899sci-research-journal.html

Sue Iwanowicz
Albany College of Pharmacy

Barb Palso wrote:

> Recently Pamela Van Hine (I think) commented on NIH's proposal for
> the establishment of "E-BIOMED", a Web site for the publication of all
> new biomed research, and wondered why it wasn't the subject of more
> discussion.
>
> Perhaps the discussion is finally starting. The _NEJM_, June 10, 1999,
> vol. 340 (23), pp. 1828-1829 contains an editorial by Arnold S.
> Relman, with whom I agree, on the subject.
>
> Barbara Palso, MLS, AHIP
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