Nature launches web debate "Future e-access to the primary literature"

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Readers may be interested in Nature's lively debate on the future of
scholarly communications, slated to continue throughout April, with
numerous contributions from researchers, librarians, and publishers.

>From the introduction:

The communication of research results impacts on everyone involved in
science. Today, Nature launches an online debate on the most crucial and
talked-about aspect of scientific publishing -- the impact of the
web on the publication of original research.  The debate is freely
accessible via Nature's home page (http://www.nature.com) or directly at
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access

Today's set of papers includes views from:

Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian at Yale University
Derk Haank, CEO, Elsevier Science
Frank Gannon, Executive Director, European Molecular Biology Organization
Ira Mellman, Editor, The Journal of Cell Biology, Yale University School of
	Medicine
Edwin Sequeira, Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for
	Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National
	Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Jo McEntyre and David J. Lipman, National Center for Biotechnology
	Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of 
	Health, Bethesda, USA
Les Grivell, Director,  E-BioSci; a European archive initiative
Martin Richardson, Publishing Director, Oxford University Press
Robert D. Wells, President, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
	Biology, and Herbert Tabor, M.D. Editor, J. Biol. Chem

Philip Campbell
Editor,
Nature