WHO pilots an initiative to give developing nations access low-cost internet access for scientific information.

LONDON The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has launched a pilot version of an online library that will provide health care professionals with the knowledge and know-how to support health care decisions. With the stated aim of becoming of becoming "one of the greatest libraries of the world," the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) will provide fast access to the latest thinking in health care services but will also act as a filter to ensure the reliability of the information it lin

Leading scientists will refuse to publish, edit or subscribe to journals that do not make research articles available free of charge.

While you take time out to eat your lunch, your computer could be busy helping crack one of the biggest challenges of modern biology.

A new research programme is encouraging researchers to forgo publishing their results in academic journals and instead post them straight on the web.

Entrepreneurs looking to exploit the data collected through the Human Genome Project are to face stiff competition from a project designed to allow researchers around the world to access analysed and annotated genome information for free.