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| March 06, 2006 | Thomas, Kim | COPYRIGHT 2006 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Kim Thomas

Kim Thomas

Medical research funding body the Wellcome Trust has invited tenders to find a supplier to host, manage and develop a UK version of PubMed Central, the US National Library's free database of medical research papers.

Potential suppliers have been asked to express interest by 8 March. The Wellcome Trust and its UK partners, which include the Department of Health, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation, hope to make a decision by late July.

The Wellcome Trust was expecting applications from a mix of suppliers, said Robert Kiley, head of systems strategy at the Wellcome Library, including publishers and experts at hosting large databases or running manuscript submission systems.

The UK version of PubMed Central would be launched early in 2007, said Kiley, and consist of three systems: a mirror of data already held in ...

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