Varmus Defends E-biomed Proposal, Prepares to Push Ahead

Abstract

This summer, many biomedical editors and publishers are wondering how their journals will survive if the government goes ahead with a plan to distribute biomedical papers for free on the Internet. But the plan9s author, National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus, is charging forward with E-biomed, as he calls it, anyway. In a six-page memo posted on NIH9s Web site on 21 June, he suggests that the planning is moving toward a dramatic climax.

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