NIH Posts E-biomed Proposal
Office of the Director, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Thursday, May 6, 1999, Anne ThomasThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that its Director, Harold Varmus, M.D., has posted on the NIH website a proposal he calls E-biomed, for electronic publications in the biomedical sciences. The proposal includes discussion of prospective benefits, methods to guarantee equity, and plans to launch E-biomed.
The URL is: http://www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ebiomed/ebiomed.htm.
Dr. Varmus invites e-mail comments about E-biomed, and the NIH will post the responses for others to read.
Some journals have printed news stories about E-biomed, including Nature (Vol. 398, 29 April 1999, p.725), and Science (Vol 284, #5415, 30 April 1999, p.718).