Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Monday, July 02, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001070202t.htm

House of Representatives Seeks to Close Free Bibliographic Database
By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Washington

A Web site operated by the U.S. Energy Department that allows scientists to search journals for citations and abstracts in the physical sciences is in jeopardy because of a bill approved on Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The bill is accompanied by a report that recommends eliminating the service.

The service, PubScience, allows researchers to examine more than a thousand peer-reviewed journals free and at the same time, instead of searching multiple Web sites, publications, and references....

 



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