The impact of the web on the publication of original research
The communication of research results impacts on everyone involved in science. Today, Nature launches an online debate on the most crucial and talked-about aspect of scientific publishing -- the impact of the web on the publication of original research. The debate is freely accessible via Nature's home page (http://www.nature.com) or directly at nature.com
Today's set of papers includes views from:
--Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian at Yale University
--Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier Science
--Frank Gannon, Executive Director, European Molecular Biology Organization
--Ira Mellman, Editor, The Journal of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine
--Edwin Sequeira, Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
--Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
--Les Grivell, Director, E-BioSci; a European archive initiative
--Martin Richardson, Publishing Director, Oxford University Press
--Robert D. Wells, President, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
--and Herbert Tabor, M.D. Editor, J. Biol. Chem
Philip Campbell Editor, Nature |