[WEB4LIB] RE: More Public sites targeted for shutdown

[Richard Wiggins]

Here's a quite good article about the Pubscience shutdown in the Washington
Post.  Excellent coverage of a not-so-excellent story.  Understands
commercial databases versus other resources, free-search-but-pay-for-content
model. 

Quote:

"It's the heroin pusher's approach to marketing," said Martin Blume, editor
in chief of the American Physical Society, which publishes several journals
on physics.  

By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 21, 2002; Page E01 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17568-2002Nov20.html

If nothing else we should cultivate Mr. Krim to cover this and other
important issues facing libraries vis-a-vis the Web and the government.

/rich

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