Senate Bill Offers Tacit Approval of Scholarly Web Portal Scorned by House

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Senate Bill Offers Tacit Approval of Scholarly Web Portal Scorned by House
By ANDREA L. FOSTER

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001080901t.htm

Chronicle of Higher Education
Washington

The fate of PubScience -- the U.S. Department of Energy's Web portal that
allows scientists to search journal abstracts in the physical sciences --
looks brighter following Senate approval last month of a spending bill for
the agency.

The bill is accompanied by a report that does not recommend eliminating
the service. Earlier last month, the House of Representatives approved a
comparable spending bill, but that legislation was accompanied by a report
that proposed scrapping PubScience.

An aide to the Senate Appropriations Committee said Wednesday that the
committee had given tacit approval to PubScience by failing to mention the
popular Web site in its report.