Netprints: the next phase in the evolution of biomedical publishing

BMJ 1999;319:1515-1516 ( 11 December )

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Netprints: the next phase in the evolution of biomedical publishing

Will allow researchers to share their findings in full, for free, and fast

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This week we launch clinmed.netprints.org, an electronic archive where authors can post their research into clinical medicineand health before, during, or after peer review by other agencies.Resulting from a collaboration between the BMJ Publishing Groupand Stanford University Libraries, it will allow researchers toshare their findings in full, for free, and as soon as their studiesarecomplete.

Articles will be screened for breaches of confidentiality and libel before we post them. After posting authors may submitthem to any peer reviewed journal that will accept submissionsthat have appeared as electronic preprints. The list of such journalsextends far beyond those of the BMJ Publishing Group and is growingdaily (see box). Researchers who have retained the right to posttheir research results after publication in a peer reviewed journalcan archive their articles here rather than on possibly more ephemeralinstitutional or personal websites.

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