Re: NIH as publisher

[Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>]

I disagree.  This activity is handled well by the private sector.  This is
a waste of government money.  Why re-create the wheel?  I would rather see
this money go toward things that the private sector does poorly, like
universal health care or public schools.

Joe Esposito

On 6/2/05, Michael Carroll <Carroll@law.villanova.edu> wrote:

>    Please take a look at what's being published before you fly off the
> handle.  PubChem is a database of factual information, chemical
> compounds and the like, that is in the *public domain*. See
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=DisplayFiltered&DB=pccompound
> 
>    Gathering and organizing public domain information that speeds
> publicly-funded biomedical research is a perfectly legitimate public
> function.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Michael W. Carroll
> Associate Professor of Law
> Villanova University School of Law