[LIS-Forum] UK to launch PubMed Central in a few months

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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:42:53 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun at mssrf.res.in>

>From Peter Suber's blog

More on UKPMC

UK PubMed Central To Launch in January, Library Journal, August 9, 2006.
Excerpt: The desire to make government funded research freely available to
the public got another boost with the announced launch of UK PubMed
Central (UKPMC), a repository based on the PubMed Central in the United
States, operated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Like its
American counterpart, UKPMC will provide free access to an online digital
archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences.
Officials at the Wellcome Trust, strong advocates of open access, said the
contract to run UKPMC was awarded to a partnership between the British
Library, the University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics
Institute (EBI). Launch of the service is scheduled for January 2007....



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