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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Helping researchers in the same niche know about one another

The U.S. National Library of Medicine is inviting users of Medline and PubMed to list their names and research projects on a public web site in order to facilitate collaboration and information sharing.

(PS: Mutual awareness like this within a research niche could prevent the kinds of problems documented by Zhenglun Pan and four co-authors in the December PLoS Medicine.)