From
http://pipeline.corante.com/

*Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his
organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibre scientific
journal called eLife that would compete directly with top-tier publications
such as Nature and Science, seen by scientists as the premier locations for
publishing. Unlike traditional journals, however, which cost British
universities hundreds of millions of pounds a year to access, articles in
eLife will be free to view on the web as soon as they are published. . . *

*Walport, who is a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's premier
scientific academy, said the results of public and charity-funded
scientific research should be freely available to anyone who wants to read
it, for whatever purpose they need it. His comments echo growing concerns
from scientists who baulk at the rising costs of academic journals,
particularly in a time of shrinking university budgets.*


There is more and is fun reading.


Bill Truesdell

Bath, Maine

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