[WEB4LIB] RE: More Public sites targeted for shutdown

[gary]

Over the past week I've heard via a couple of reliabe grapevines that the new 
targets which Mr. Krim mentions in the article will be the Global Legal Info 
Network (via LC) and Agricola (via NAL). We will have to wait to learn if this 
information is on target. 

cheers,
gary

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Quoting Richard Wiggins <rich at richardwiggins.com>:

> 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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