S. Mola, Effective bibliographic search. Internet and neurology. Cochrane Collaboration, Neurologia, September 2004. The article is in Spanish; only this English-language abstract is free online, at least so far: "The development of communication and the possibility of its dissemination to the biomedical documentation by means of the Internet network are producing changes in the traditional way of conceiving scientific publications. Two initiatives, derived from this new framework, are analyzed in this article. These are the Pubmed Central, the initiative of NCBI, intended to create a reservoir of biomedical literature, with free access, on-line, and the Cochrane Library which, through its different databases, is aimed at offering practitioners reasonable replies to frequent clinical questions. A new model of clinical documentation is arising from a combination of both: on the one hand, rational indexing and accessibility of the literature, and on the other, the analysis of information produced to generate relevant clinical knowledge." (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
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Peter Suber at 9/25/2004 04:04:00 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.
