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Friday, November 22, 2002
Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure From Pay Sites - Jonathan Krim, Washington Post
The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet site that catalogued government and academic science research, in response to corporate complaints that it competed with similar commercial services. Department officials said abandoning PubScience, an electronic service that cross-indexed and searched roughly 2 million government reports and academic articles, will save the government $200,000 a year because two equivalent services exist in the private sector.
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