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STM houses offer some free access to research.(News)

Publishers Weekly

| December 13, 2004 | Reid, Calvin | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

CONCERNED ABOUT A proposal from the National Institues of Health (NIH) that could make all government-funded STM research available to the public for free, a coalition of publishers and health assocations is offering to provide free online access to some publicly funded medical research. However, academic librarians, who support the free-access proposal, said the initiative is not enough.

The Web site, www.patient-inform.org, will launch next spring as a pilot project, and will disseminate original medical research directly to consumers. The coalition launching the site is made up of about 20 STM publishers--among them Reed Elsevier (parent company of PW), John Wiley …

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