Re: EPA Set to Close Library Network and Electronic Catalog

[Ted Freeman <tfreeman@allenpress.com>]

There seems to be a good deal of skepticism among publishers when 
it comes to this issue. At the Allen Press Emerging Trends 
seminar a couple of years ago, for instance, PMC's Ed Sequeira 
was surprised when his assertion that the federal government 
could be trusted to preserve scientific literature drew a healthy 
round of laughter from the audience. Anyone remember Pubscience?

At 05:59 PM 2/21/2006, you wrote:
>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
>Email: mfrank@The-APS.org