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A Snip from NEWS SCAN "newsman" 5/4/99 <[log in to unmask]> Wouldn't it be nice if they would show where their appropriations were being spent too? NIH PONDERS ONLINE DISTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering a proposal to disseminate research papers by biomedical scientists who have received agency funding. Bypassing print journals could save "millions of dollars" says NIH director Harold Varmus. The proposal is still in the embryonic stage, but NIH officials say they may incorporate some type of online peer review into the electronic publication process. Proponents of the plan say the move to e-publishing is inevitable: "Sending atoms of wood pulp through the postal system is pretty cumbersome compared with sending bits over the Net," says Bruce Dan, a former editor of the Journal of the American Medial Association. (Chronicle of Higher Education 7 May 99) http://chronicle.com/