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Source: San Jose Mercury News Another Article About The Public Library of Science
From the article, This venture, called the Public Library of Science, aims to revolutionize how research findings are made public, making studies easier to find and less expensive to read. Not some late-night scheme of lab geeks, the library is the brainchild of some of the nation's most reputable scientists, funded by a $9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Its chairman is Dr. Harold Varmus, former chief of the National Institutes of Health. Thirteen Nobel-winning scientists are among its board members and supporters. Frustrated by the system used by the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature, Science and hundreds of other journals, the scientists are building the nation's first peer-reviewed electronic science journals. The journals -- one called PLoS Biology, the other PLoS Medicine -- would be free, easily accessible and efficient, said co-founder Patrick O. Brown, Stanford University School of Medicine professor of biochemistry and a leading researcher in the field of genomics. "Progress is made in science because each new step is built on what was learned before. But much of it is inaccessible,'' Brown said.
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