Peter Suber, Open Access News
...More on PubSCIENCE....In the August 16 Ex Libris, Marylaine Block makes the case for keeping PubSCIENCE and urges readers to write to the Department of Energy. Quoting her own letter to DOE: "In case you're unaware of it, the...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_08_18_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
..."PubScience is a free online, searchable database that indexes and summarizes articles from more than 1,000 scientific journals that have agreed to participate. It has been helping students, researchers and ordinary citizens since...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_09_15_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...More on the death of PubScience....Karen Heyman tells the story in the November 20 issue of The Scientist. Last week we knew that the SIIA lobbying against federally-funded FOS would continue, but we didn't know which other databases...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_11_17_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...More on the death of PubScience....George S. Porter reflects on what we've lost in today's LIS News. "[T]he demise of PubScience constitutes a true loss for independent researchers, public libraries, K-12, community colleges, 4-year...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_12_01_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...More on PubSCIENCE....In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrea Foster brings us up to date. The Department of Energy can't legally shut it down until the end of the public comment period on September 8. However, it showed its...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_08_11_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...In the November 13 Federal Computer Week, William Matthews assesses the impact of killing PubScience and reports that the lobbyists who killed it are targeting other government-funded FOS, including one database in law and one in...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_11_10_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...The problem isn't exactly like last November's defunding of PubScience, which was the result of a deliberate, anti-FOS lobbying campaign by a trade association of commercial electronic publishers. But the effect might be the...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_03_16_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...next serials crisis?- an article which questions the new economic model and More Thoughts on PubSCIENCE, which reviews the demise of PubScience. Posted by Dr. Vinod Scaria at 7/28/2003 01:32:00 PM. In the July 28 SearchDay, Chris...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_07_27_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...versus Nonaffiliated Access in a Free Database, College and Research Libraries, May 2002. Affiliated users of PubScience have access to more full-text articles than unaffiliated users. Savvy users of both types can improve their...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_06_02_...
Peter Suber, Open Access News
...More on PubSCIENCE....It was killed on November 4. (PS: Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress, expect more lobbying from publishers of priced literature and less government-subsidized FOS.) Posted by Peter Suber at...
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2002_11_03_...
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