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To: ~digs who wrote (645)8/5/2003 6:11:38 PM
From: ~digs  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6763
 
A Fight for Free Access To Medical Research
Online Plan Challenges Publishers' Dominance
Message 19181446

Why is it... that anyone can download medical nonsense from the Web for free, but citizens must pay to see the results of carefully conducted biomedical research that was financed by their taxes?

The Public Library of Science aims to change that. The organization, founded by a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and two colleagues, is plotting the overthrow of the system by which scientific results are made known to the world