Yesterday the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the NIH Chemical Genomics Center (no URL yet), the first in a series of institutions that will form a network of biomedical research and drug development. For the OA connection, see the June 9 press release: "To support the network, NIH plans to establish a repository to acquire, maintain and distribute a collection of up to 1 million chemical compounds. As was the case for the Human Genome Project, data generated by the chemical genomics network will be deposited in a central database, called PubChem, which will be managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine and will be freely available to the entire scientific community."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/10/2004 12:01:00 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.
