Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure From Pay Sites (Washington
Post) By Jonathan Krim  Page E01,   Nov 21, 2002  

The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet site that catalogued
government and academic science research, in response to corporate ...  

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

What's Next? 

Are the days of free Internet content numbered? The Energy Department has
shut down PubSCIENCE, a Web site that offered free searches and abstracts
of energy and science articles and reports. The Washington Post reports
that the popular site was shut down after private sector groups said
PubScience competed with similar commercial services, including Scirus and
Infotrieve. The Energy Department's rationale seems to be if the private
sector is offering a similar service, they no longer need to spend the
resources on the same thing. "What we worry about is what's next," Charles
A. Hamaker, associate librarian at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte told the newspaper.

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