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These concerns have been addressed by a number of individuals and organizations. In 1999, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced an initiative, E-Biomed, later renamed PubMed Central (PMC), which would provide a repository of scientific research papers that could be accessed free over the World Wide Web. The proposal met with much controversy, especially the part, later dropped, that proposed an additional repository of papers before peer review.

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