[WEB4LIB] RE: More Public sites targeted for shutdown

Charles P. Hobbs chhobbs at cdrewu.edu
Mon Nov 18 12:45:01 EST 2002


george at library.caltech.edu wrote:

>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.
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>
Peter Jacso pans PubScience in _Information Today_, Oct 2002, pg. 32. He 
thinks Elsevier's
SCIRUS does a better job, at least for now (he wasn't too thrilled with 
SCIRUS in its
earlier days, though: 
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/infotoday/scirus/scirus.html)

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>
-- 
Charles P. Hobbs
King Drew Health Science Library
http://www.cdrewu.edu/kdhsl






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