ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES

            Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program

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                            September 15, 1999
                             GP 3.16/3-2:20/14
                             (Vol. 20, no. 14)

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          New Database Coming Soon on GPO Access: DOE's PubSCIENCE

   The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science expects to
   introduce a comprehensive new online service in early October, and
   it will be available to depository libraries and the public through
   a link on GPO Access. The new service, called PubSCIENCE, indexes
   research papers from hundreds of scientific journals, provides
   abstracts, and includes links to the original journal.

   PubSCIENCE bibliographic searching will be free to all users. In
   some cases, access to the full text of the article may be free, or
   users may have to pay a fee or provide a password, depending on the
   journal. LPS has been assisting in the PubSCIENCE beta test this
   summer.