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http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001080901t.htm

Senate Bill Offers Tacit Approval of Scholarly Web Portal Scorned by House
By ANDREA L. FOSTER

The fate of PubScience -- the U.S. Department of Energy's Web portal that allows scientists to search journal abstracts in the physical sciences -- looks brighter following Senate approval last month of a spending bill for the agency. The bill is accompanied by a report that does not recommend eliminating the service. Earlier last month, the House of Representatives approved a comparable spending bill, but that legislation was accompanied by a report that proposed scrapping PubScience....

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