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The Public Library of Science has two aims. It wants free access to back issues of scientific journals and an Internet search engine uniting information from all journals.
The Public Library of Science is asking scientific journals to make their material free and fully searchable within six months. The group plans to use Pub-Med Central, a website run by the National Library of Medicine as the home for the search engine.
Some journals see the rationale for free access to archives but do not want to be part of the fully-searchable web engine, which as of now would be run off of a U.S. government site through the National Library of Medicine.
However, Kirschner said the resistance to a government-run search engine was unfounded. There would be no direct oversight of journal content, and the search engine would simply be based around an already well-known scientific resource, Pub-Med Central.
Courtis's assessment drew a mixed response from Herminio Blanco, who was Mexico's trade minister from 1994 to 2000 and is now a consultant in Mexico City. For one thing, Blanco agreed emphatically that the FTAA is a powerful engine for prosperity. "Who could have thought in 1991, when...