Science: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields—but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are for-profit. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing.

We can’t do science without these,” says an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. “This is [like] burning down the Library of Alexandria. You can’t call it the National Agricultural Library if you don’t subscribe to the main ag journals.”