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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Friday, July 02, 2004  

International Agreement to Expand PubMed Central
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/intlpubmed04.html

Additional medical journals, some dating back more than 125 years, will be made freely available on the Internet. The Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) are joining forces to digitize the complete backfiles of a number of important and historically significant medical journals. The digitized content will be made freely available on the Internet – via PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/) and augment the content already available there.

With funding of £1.25 million [£750,000 from the Trust, £500,000 from the JISC] the project plans to digitize around 1.7 million pages of text. The NLM, a part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will manage the project, host the archive, and ensure that the digital files are preserved in perpetuity. The list of journals to be digitized will include the Annals of Surgery, Biochemical Journal, Journal of Physiology and Medical History. Digitization will commence in Summer 2004 and the first titles will be online early in 2005. Once the backfiles are digitized, a significant new body of medical literature will be freely available on the Internet.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM
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