Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health(NIH), recently circulated for comment a bold and wide-rangingproposal for NIH sponsorship of a Web site for the publicationof all new biomedical-research reports.1,2 Called "E-biomed,"the proposed site would have a powerful search system allowingfree and convenient access to research data from all biomedicalfields, including clinical studies as well as basic scientificresearch. The NIH would provide financial, technical, and administrativeassistance to initiate the program but would not be the owneror rule maker. Instead, policies would be established by a governingboard representing all . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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