The Wellcome Trust is in talks with the National Library of Medicine about creating a "European PubMed Central". From today's press release: "The establishment of this database of peer reviewed, biomedical research would mean that research papers from scientists working on a range of diseases, including TB, malaria and HIV, as well as basic research, are accessible at no charge to any researcher, patient group or member of the public anywhere in the world. Dr Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, said, 'We are determined to make the results of the research we fund freely available to anyone who wants them. We believe that central archives are the way to achieve this. The outcome of research is new knowledge about disease and health. Maximising the value of research means maximising the distribution of the results.' Dr Walport confirmed that the next step is to hold discussions with the research community on the practicalities of bringing about the vision of an open access publishing model for all Wellcome Trust funded research. He said, 'We would require all the papers reporting the results of the research we fund to be placed in a public access archive within six months of publication. We will cover, through additional funding, the costs involved in this change in publishing practice.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/04/2004 03:54:00 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.
