The Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal is using a grant from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to build a new HIV/Aids Information Gateway. Quoting Barry Kistnasamy, Dean of the Medical School: The Gateway is an "innovative concept in line with the growth in interdisciplinary research and the changing nature of scholarly communication....Researchers and scientists will have access to the avalanche of data on HIV/Aids, thus enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in their research endeavours." Quoting Pfizer CEO John Kearney: The Gateway "will hone the ability to access, retrieve and disseminate information to scientists across the world. We are confident this will result in reducing information overload and allow researchers to conclude research more quickly and accurately...."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/04/2003 03:36:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
