The Software Information Industry Association (SIAA) issued a press release supporting the Department of Energy’s (DOE) decision to remove the free PubSCIENCE database from the web. Users are now redirected to the DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) site to conduct journal searches.
The SIALL argued for the removal of PubSCIENCE due to the inequities that resulted from the government’s provision of free access to scientific literature that publishers were competitively trying to market online via fee-based subscriptions.