NIH Weighs Bold Plan for Online Preprint Publishing.

Discusses the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consideration of involvement in a Web-based publishing venture that could radically change the way biology papers are disseminated. Creation of a one-stop, public source for biomedical research papers; NIH director Harold Varmus' support of the idea; What the proposed venture would include; Head researchers Patrick Brown and David Lipman; People who support it, including the director of the National Cancer Institute; People who oppose it, including Journal editors; Other Information.