Proposed Closure of PubScience

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From: by way of Gilles Poitras (sandrar@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 09:00:48 PDT 

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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:00:48 -0700
From: Sandy <sandrar@earthlink.net> (by way of Gilles Poitras)
Subject: Proposed Closure of PubScience

Folks:

I think this will be of interest to many of you so I am forwarding it on.

                        Gilles

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Though many of you receive the Washington Office newsline, I am
forwarding it because I want you to know that the ALA COL
Subcommittee on Government Information and the GODORT committee on
Legislation are working together on draft comments from ALA on the
proposed demise of PubScience. ALA is on record opposing a former
attempt to shut down this publication. Documents librarians dispute
the statement made by DOE justifying the death of PubScience. If you
have any information that you would like included in the ALA
statement please contact Robert Walter, Chair of the COL GIS at
bwalter@pittstate.edu .

Forwarded by Sandra Reuben
CLA Chapter Councilor to ALA

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ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 67 August 20, 2002

  PROPOSED CLOSURE OF PubSCIENCE -- COMMENTS DUE by September 8th

Since its inception in 1999, PubSCIENCE has provided researchers and
science-attentive citizens access to bibliographic records of
peer-reviewed journal literature relating to DOE-supported work,
addressing the need for a searchable gateway for the Department's Web
patrons. Based on an extensive public/private sector collaboration,
PubSCIENCE has covered journals of participating science publishers,
including hyperlinks to the full text on publishers' servers.

DOE is proposing to discontinue PubSCIENCE, because -- it says --
private sector information products have emerged that freely offer
bibliographic records to Web patrons. According to DOE, "A recent
comparison of the content between PubSCIENCE and Scirus and
Infotrieve showed that 90% of the journal literature in the scope of
PubSCIENCE was covered by these two products. Taken as a whole, they
provide coverage of information for DOE Web patrons."

Comments on this proposed action will be collected using the comment
form at http://pubsci.osti.gov/psfeedbk.html for a 30-day comment
period to END September 8, 2002. Comments received will be considered
in the final decision process for the future of PubSCIENCE.
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