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This article reports on efforts to make publications resulting from U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) research available for free on the PubMed Central archive. Change was introduced to a House appropriations bill tha would requires NIH grantees to submit to PubMed within 12 months of scientific publication. The move is opposed by scientific societies and publishers.

The article reports on the efforts of U.S. government to make scientific research available for all. It reports that the accessibility offered by the Internet has transformed science publishing over the past decade. The government of the U.S. is making efforts to make all federally funded research available for free. The new system will make huge numbers of scientific articles publicly available for all. It reports that such archives will basically contain the final versions of the manuscripts written by the authors. There was an increase in public access in late 2007 when the U.S. Congress passed a bill and made it compulsory for scientists funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to deposit their papers within 12 months of publication.

Looks at the self-archiving of refereed science publications through a global virtual archive on the Internet. Comparison between royalty/fee-based literature and literature of refereed journal articles; Benefits of the free and accessible refereed literature for developing countries; Costs of refereeing or peer review; Ways to accelerate the rate of self-archiving in science disciplines.

In this article, the author discusses the evolution of the nature of personal archiving. He states that the emergence of digital storage media such as computers have helped people to pass on the details of their lives to future generations in digital files. He also explores the never-ending developments of digital media and the approaches of the British library in ensuring the credibility of files in coming years and centuries which are also now being adopted by archival institutions worldwide.

Mentions that the collection of papers and radio equipment belonging to Guglielmo Marconi is being given to the Science Museum in London. The protests over the original plan to auction the material.

4 November 1869. Contributors to the first issue concern themselves with such topics as the fertilization of winter-flowering plants, meetings of 'German naturalists and physicians at Innsbruck' and the American [...]

Author Affiliations: 50 Years Ago In arboriculture the word 'mulch' is usually associated with the compost of wet leaves, straw, etc., laid as a protection to the roots of newly [...]

Author(s): B. Baden-Powell 50 years ago During the past few months, three great achievements in science and technology have justifiably received world acclaim: (1) the launching of artificial Earth satellites [...]