The post below from Frederick W Stoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at the University of Buffalo Science and Engineering Library is posted with the permission of the post's author.
Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> World Business Community Advisor <http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org> ============================================== Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:06:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Frederick W Stoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fw: [ALACOUN:14821] Fw: Re: Re: ACS and PubChem On Wed, 18 May 2005, David P. Dillard wrote: >> May I repost this to the Net-Gold and to other discussion groups? Please! I hope the story gets librarians and information specialists and researchers making necessary contacts to prevent this. Fred =============================================== Two years ago ACS, et al. successfully had the plug pulled on the U.S. Department of Energy's PubScience database. There were hundreds of letters written as official comments to the proposal to close down a database that we in an academic research library rarely used, because we were already subscribing to the BIG STM databases. However, PubScience was frequently used by small business concerns from single-person consultants to those employing perhaps a doze or two or three persons, who could under absolutely no condition afford to pay the annual subscriptions to ISI, CSA, CAS, Elsevier, etc. to access their basic science literature needs. PubScience did a FANTASTIC job in doing this. I imagine there were many SMALL colleges that also could not afford to purchase these expensive databases. However, the powers that be sided with the seven letters and the seven publishers/vendors/database producers that PubScience must go. Now, one of the players is after PubChem. They WILL next go after PubMed. They will go after ANY government database that appears to provide the most minimal competition and go whining to the courts to have the unfair competition shut down. The current Administration is more than willing to pocket the money the lobbyists are providing legislators and assist the publishers, vendors, and database producers. This should be a HOT TOPIC at the ALA Annual. ALA should be taking a lead role in getting other library associations and other education associations united to stand up to ACS and stop them in their efforts to close down another PubDatabase. If they win a second time, they WILL go for a third, and a fourth... PubChem <http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/308/5723/774a> PubScience Story <http://www.ala.org/al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=2003columns2&; Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=28901> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://snipurl.com/ezff> <http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0211/msg00031.html> <http://www.libr.org/Juice/issues/vol5/LJ_5.35.html#2> <http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/20026/89nov12.htm> Fred Stoss Frederick W. Stoss, M.S. (zool/ecol), M.L.S. Associate Librarian (Biological and Environmental Sciences and Mathematics) 228-B Capen Hall Science and Engineering Library Arts & Sciences Libraries University Libraries University at Buffalo--SUNY Buffalo, NY 14260-1672 716/645-2946 ext. 224 -- 716/645-3710 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was a prior Net-Gold post about this issue that may be viewed at this URL: From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:52 am Subject: DATABASES: SCIENCE ENGINEERING COMPUTER AND TECHNOLOGY : CHEMISTRY: RESEARCH: Database Debate: NIH's PubChem Chemical Structure Database Draws ACS's Concern <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5816> End of Post _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
