Med pub crawl. (Letters).Your article, "Publisher Perish TO PERISH. To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. 2. What has never existed cannot be said to have perished. 3. When two or more persons die by the same accident, as a shipwreck, no presumption arises that one perished before the " (October 2001), by Nicholas Thompson Thompson, city, Canada Thompson, city (1991 pop. 14,977), central Man., Canada, on the Burntwood River. A mining town, it developed after large nickel deposits were discovered in the area in 1956. , has appeal, and I am grateful for the balance that Thompson sought to bring to the article. Regardless of how appealing the idea of putting all of the information into a single PubMed Central PubMed Central is a free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences. It can be reached at [1]. It grew from the online Entrez PubMed biomedical literature search system. PubMed Central was developed by the U.S. database might be, there are still several major flaws in it. First, you don't need a single physical database to bring things together. While the federal government's First-Gov Internet site is still working out some kinks, the fact is that you can get access to millions of federal and state websites through this single portal with its amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. search engine. Second, PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. has the wrong business model. You don't take things that are working well in the private sector and turn them over to the government to administer. And the information that we are talking about is not necessarily public property. Under the guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. discussed by the PMC, authors or someone else would be expected to pay the publishing cost and then turn it over for free to the PMC. Now, the costs are covered by journal fees. The PMC approach would discourage the publication of scientific information. Finally, virtually all scholarly scientific journals are immediately available on the Internet to their members when published, and after a period of six months to a year, they are available to anyone for free. There is no need for a government-sponsored initiative in this area, and the National Institutes of Health itself doesn't seem to be pushing it any longer. WALLACE O. KEENE Derwood, Md. |
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