[LINK] Open Science Online

[Tony Barry]

Source: Current Cites May 2000

  Blume, Harvey. "Open Science Online" The American Prospect
    11(10) (March 27-April 10, 2000):44-47.
    (http://www.americanprospect.com/archives/V11-10/blume-h.html) - Blume
    uses the example of PubMed Central to discuss the issue of
    electronic scholarly publishing. PubMed Central was supposed to be an
    electronic archive administered by the NIH to give free access to
    biomedical research in the form of full text articles and research
    reports even before they appeared in a final printed form. The project
    came under fire from the New England Journal of Medicine as
    threatening "the evaluation and orderly dissemination of new clinical
    studies." In other words the dissemination of unreviewed research and
    the ability of traditional publishing outlets to adapt to new
    technological possibilities. Comparing this type of scholarly
    electronic publishing with the open source movement, ie. Linux, Blume
    suggests digital projects such as Pub Med Central will still allow
    traditional journals to frame and interpret data, and that this
    expertise will be the equivalent of an open source business making
    profits from documentation and customer support as opposed to the sale
    of sofware. - ML

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