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  • From: "tompoe AT renonevada.net" <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
  • To: community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Community_studios] e-government poised to be nothing less than a referral site to pay-per-view
  • Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:48:29 -0700

Hi: Just wondered how many of you are comfortable with the idea of pay-per-view for government documents?

"A recent comparison of the content between PubSCIENCE and Scirus and Infotrieve showed that 90% of the journal literature in the scope of PubSCIENCE was covered by these two products. Taken as a whole, they provide coverage of information for DOE Web patrons."

"As a result of these findings, DOE is hereby proposing to discontinue PubSCIENCE. Comments on this proposed action will be collected using the comment form available on this Web site for a 30-day comment period to end September 8, 2002. Comments received will be considered in the final decision process for the future of PubSCIENCE."

In other words, the U.S. govt printing office will privatize their work for access to government documents. This is a quantum leap in logic for those who wish to hide their heads in the sand, thank you. For instance, removing PubScience, automatically shuts out the 1300 mandated designated depositories responsible for providing adequate dissemination and availablility of those documents. Who are the 1300 designated depositories? You guessed it, the libraries across our country. They are now pay-per-view consumers/customers/taxpayers paying to have government documents printed and available to for-profit profiteers.

Thanks,
Tom Poe
Open Studios
Reno, NV

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  • [Community_studios] e-government poised to be nothing less than a referral site to pay-per-view, tompoe AT renonevada.net, 09/21/2002

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