LISNews: Hawkish On Libraries Since 1999

Lee Hadden Writes: \" To help bridge the gap between the richest and poorest nations, some
attempt is being made to make scientific information available through
libraries in the poorest countries.
See the article in: Nature 417, 365 (2002);
From 24 May, Nature and all other journals published by the Nature
Publishing Group will become available through the HINARI scheme. That,
coupled with the SciDev.Net free-access website that was spun off from
Nature last year (see scidev.net), is one step towards the goals
outlined by Sachs\' committee.

Read more about it at: nature.com (Subscription required).\"

Chronicle.com is Reporting Few of the 30,000 scientists who pledged to boycott journals that don\'t make their content free online after six months have actually followed through on that threat, and few journals have changed their ways.

\"Perhaps we were being a little naive\" in thinking that publishers would change their policies because of the boycott, says Mr. Eisen. \"In reality, very few publishers responded.\"

jen writes \"An update on the contest from AIR (Annals of Improbable Research).
Here\'s the release:

The past month has seen further turns and twists on the road to
identifying the world\'s Most Obscure Journal. This joint research
project of the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) and the Times
Higher Education Supplement (THES) seeks to answer this question:

\"Which is the least-read academic journal?\"

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Lee Hadden writes: \"The March 18, 2002 issue of the Walls Street Journal has an article
about how newspapers are cutting expenses by reducing services:Newly Endangered Species: Newspapers\' Stock Tables that says the stock quotes section is shrinking and another story, Publishers Trim Staff, Coverage; Will Readership Also Shrink? says that publishers are confronting an advertising recession that is now in its second
year, and are cutting costs by whittling away at their
publications. The San Francisco Chronicle now puts out its Sunday
magazine every other week and has pared its comics section.
WSJ.com\"