Re: EPA Set to Close Library Network and Electronic Catalog

["Martin Frank" <Mfrank@The-APS.org>]

Will the NIH Library Be Next?  The closing of the EPA Library should
serve as a cautionary note to those who believe that NIH should be the
one to archive the biomedical literature.  At a time of shrinking
budgets, projected to be $28.39 billion in FY2011, a 13.8% decrease from
existing funding levels adjusted for inflation, can we truly rely on the
NIH Library and PubMedCentral as a future archiving solution?
Marty

Martin Frank, Ph.D.
Executive Director
American Physiological Society
9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3991
Tel: 301-634-7118   Fax: 301-634-7241
Email: mfrank@The-APS.org
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to organism"



>>> cahamake@email.uncc.edu 2/17/2006 8:34 PM >>>
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=643

Under G.Bush Jr.'s proposed budget, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency is slated to shut down its network of libraries
that serve its own scientists as well as the public, according to
internal agency documents released today by Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In addition to the
libraries, the agency will pull the plug on its electronic
catalog which tracks tens of thousands of unique documents and
research studies that are available nowhere else."


Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825

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