Why do we need it? That is the argument against a central
PMC
repository. With the search technology that exists today, a
central repository is unnecessary. Let Google Scholar crawl
journal sites as it already does to provide access to the
literature, or invite NIH to extend PubMed/Medline backward
with
links in parallel with the journal legacy projects that are
being
undertaken, so the public and scientific community can
readily
find what they are looking. Central is unnecessary,
duplicative
of distributed journal and institutional repository sites,
and a
diversion of research dollars unnecessarily.
Martin Frank, Ph.D.
Executive Director, American Physiological Society
9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3991
Tel: 301-634-7118 fax: 301-634-7241
email: mfrank the-aps.org
APS Website: http://www.the-aps.org
...integrating the life sciences from molecule to organism
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From: owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu on behalf of
Richard Feinman
Sent: Fri 7/28/2006 7:27 PM
To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
Subject: Central site for IR
Wouldn't it be good to have a central site for IR supported
by
grants or all the institutions that wanted to use it as a
repository?
Richard D. Feinman, Co-editor-in-chief
Nutrition & Metabolism ( http://www.nutr
itionandmetabolism.com /home )
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