Healthy Skepticism Library item: 7999

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Publication type: Journal Article

Kmietowicz Z.
Database gives free access to UK medical research
BMJ 2007 Jan 27; 334:(7586):175
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7586/175

Abstract:

Most biomedical research in the United Kingdom will be made freely available online in a database that went live this month and which is supported by nine of the UK’s biggest research sponsors.

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC; www.ukpmc.ac.uk) mirrors the US PubMed Central database, a free online archive of life science research administered by the US National Institutes of Health. Many of the groups behind the UK initiative, which has been led by the Wellcome Trust, now require that the results of research they support are made available to the site once they are accepted for publication by a peer reviewed journal.

The Wellcome Trust announced in May 2005 that it was looking for technical partners to set up the service (BMJ 2005;330:1043). The trust, together with the other eight research funders that support the project, awarded the contract to develop the site to a partnership between the . . .