Courtesy of Harold Varmus
A conversation with Pat Brown in San Francisco in December 1998, a year before I left the NIH, about the open-access preprint archive that physicists had set up at Los Alamos National Laboratory got me thinking for the first time about open-access publishing in biology and medicine. The Public Library of Science began as an advocacy group for the NIH archive, PubMedCentral, about a year after I left the NIH. Subsequently it became a publishing house.
There is some truth to that. I loved what I was doing as a faculty member at University of California, San Francisco but when the fall comes around again, and you get ready to do the same lectures....
There is something healthy about having a chance to work with new colleagues. But the NIH also posed risks I guess I was ready to take. One was to maintain my efforts ...
