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September 21, 1999
Vol. LI, No. 19
NIH Gearing Up for
1999 Research Festival
CFC Kickoff Set, Sept. 30
Khoury Lecturer Tjian Unravels Secrets of Gene Expression
NIDA To Mark 25th Anniversary with Day of Activities
NIH Celebrates Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 5
New Day Care Center
for NIH Preschool Planned
Day Care Board Seeks Members
Diggs Lecturer Francis
Explores AIDS, Other STDs
STEP Offers
Fall Program of Activities
Free Flu Vaccine
Available to NIH'ers
Depression Screening
for NIH Employees
Science in the News
News Briefs
Appointees
Awardees
Retirees
Study Subjects Sought
U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
NIH Record Archives |
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Film Festival Sets Attendance,
Earnings Records
By Rich McManus
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A family gets into the spirit of NIH's annual Outdoor Film Festival, now in its third year.
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It used to be that the organizers of NIH's annual Outdoor Film
Festival pretty much knew how much money the 10-day event
collected before the projector lamp grew cold on the final night of
the series. This year, however, it took a few weeks for sponsors
Cable TV Montgomery and R&W to tally up proceeds from a
variety of food vendors, cash donations and raffle earnings. But
money's not the object in this, the festival's third year, when
attendance hit the vicinity of 48,000 people and earnings topped
$17,000, up from $10,000 last year.
M O R E . . .
New Electronic Resource Announced
NIH To Establish, Maintain
PubMed Central
NIH announced its plan Aug. 30 to establish a repository for electronic
distribution of primary research reports in the life sciences. The new
NIH-supported site is to be called PubMed Central. It will be integrated
with the widely used bibliographic site PubMed
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/), and is intended to be one of
several repositories in an international system first proposed by NIH
director Dr. Harold Varmus last May. PubMed Central will begin
receiving, storing and distributing content — including
peer-reviewed articles, preprints, and other screened reports from
existing journals, new journals, and reputable scientific
organizations — in January 2000.
M O R E . . .
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