[WEB4LIB] More Public sites targeted for shutdown

[george at library.caltech.edu]

I took a stab <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dig_ref/message/6428> at
addressing some of the fallacies in the article Blake Carver recommended
<http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1111/web-science-11-13-02.asp>.

There are, indeed, some real issues surrounding the demise of PubScience
through what appears to have been railroading of an agency decision by
pressure from monied interests.

If the agriculture database is AGRICOLA, the situation is far more analogous
to PubMed than it is to PubScience.  AGRICOLA is a professionally produced
index providing intellectually deep access to the literature and
sponsored/created by the National Agricultural Library.  AGRICOLA is a
database of long standing.

Draw the battle lines honestly and clearly.  As the truth.com commercials so
eloquently prove, truth is a powerful weapon.

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
Caltech, 1-43
Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681