Open Access Databases - Michael Galperin, an investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes for Health, says “the open database movement is here to stay, and more and more people in the community (as well as in the financing bodies) now appreciate the importance of open databases in spreading knowledge.” He coordinated the compilation of the 2005 compendium of molecular biology databases; published by Nucleic Acids Research, the Compendium shows a dramatic increase of 171 databases from 2004, bringing the new total up to 719. Galperin says databases that offer valuable content “usually manage to survive, even if they have to change their funding scheme or migrate from one host institution to another.”