Like we said last week, very sad news for both librarians, end users, and vendors. Let’s hope it’s not the start of a national trend.

From the article:

The rolling shutdown of the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative’s online resources by vendors was all but complete on Friday, a day after the state-funded database failed to meet its deadline to secure a $1 million bailout from legislators…The shutdown means the loss of access to more than 10,000 journals and millions of articles in the fields of science, medicine, technology and business, which many users, particularly small businesses and the state’s community colleges, will not otherwise be able to afford, Peiffer said.

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal

This entry was posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 and is filed under Libraries and Librarianship, Search News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.