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[Following is part of message taken from ISCB
(International Society for computational Biology)
mailing list (www.iscb.org). Samreen]
Original Message --------
Subject: Message from ISCB President
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:40:15 -0800
From: Bj Morrison <bj@sdsc.edu>
To: admin@iscb.org
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues:
--- we have learned that the PubScience Web site is to
be closed. See
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17568-2002Nov20.html
for a complete description. The ISCB Board of
Directors were unanimous in their support of the
following statement, which we propose to send as a
letter to Science and Nature.
"The ISCB expresses its regret and concern about the
recent decision by the US Department of Energy to
shutdown the PubScience web site. Free access to
scientific knowledge and data are essential to
scientific progress. Free access to publicly funded
databases such as PubScience, PubMed, Medline and
GenBank reflects the public's role in funding the
science that led to these data and provides a cost
effective means for disseminating this information to
the scientific community. It is essential to future
progress in scientific research that these public
information resources remain freely accessible by
all scientists."
{Thanks to David States for preparing this}
To ensure the Board speaks on behalf of the
membership, I invite you to voice any concerns
regarding this statement by sending mail to
admin@iscb.org. The current intent is to send this
letter to both journals on December 13, 2002.
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