The September 9 issue of Biz Inkprofiles some companies using Oracle's new grid computing technology. One is BioMed Central. "BioMed Central is using Oracle Database 10g to make it easier for scientists to manage the publishing process. BioMed Central is also using Oracle Database 10g to offer its customers -- 300-plus institutions, such as Harvard University, National Institutes of Health (NIH), World Health Organization (WHO), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Columbia University and the University of California -- low publication costs combined with open access to the research once it has been published. The end result is a hundred-fold reduction in 'cost-per-article-access' compared to conventional publishing."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/09/2003 09:15:00 AM.
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.
