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Elsevier Plans to Close Three Portals

>From Edupage, December 29, 2003

ELSEVIER PLANS TO CLOSE THREE PORTALS

According to the in-house employee newsletter Elsevier Today, Elsevier has
decided to close three end-user portals because the benefits do not
justify the high investments required. The affected portals are BioMedNet,
ChemWeb, and ElsevierEngineering.com. Membership in the portals was free,
although users were required to register and access to full-text items
required pay-per-view retrieval through a connection to ScienceDirect.
Some of the portals' current activities will reportedly move to the main
Elsevier.com site. Elsevier has promised to meet subscription commitments
to users regardless of the closures. Information Today, 29 December 2003
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031229-1.shtml