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New Global Science Gateway

From the June 22nd press release:

WorldWideScience.org opens public access to more than 200 million pages of international research information...

WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British Library, along with eight other participating countries, today opened an online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals.  The gateway, WorldWideScience.org, gives citizens, researchers and anyone interested in science the capability to search science portals not easily accessible through popular search technology such as that deployed by Google, Yahoo! and many other commercial search engines.

The portal provides for a federated search of Science.gov (United States), UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom) and resources from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, and Netherlands.

NIH PubMed Central Adds Millionth Article

From the press release:

PubMed Central (PMC), NLM's free digital archive of full-text journal articles, reached the one million-article mark the week of June 18. The millionth article reportedly came from the American Journal of Pathology. Now in its seventh year, PMC is enhanced each week with articles from over 350 important life sciences journals whose publishers have agreed to deposit current issues. All of the content submitted to PMC is converted to a normalized electronic format for long-term storage and display on the web.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers a Flash demo of PubMed Central. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research provides the NIH "Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research" via PubMed Central.