Maria Halgund
@mhaglund.bsky.social
Library Director, KTH Royal Institute of technology. Intrest in open science, research, educaction and library issues.
Reposted by Maria Halgund
The Administration is taking aim at #libraries. A new executive order dropped mandating the elimination of the Institute for Museum and Library Service #IMLS.
This is the funding body that provides national support for libraries and museums across the country
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is the funding body that provides national support for libraries and museums across the country
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The Administration is taking aim at #libraries. A new executive order dropped mandating the elimination of the Institute for Museum and Library Service #IMLS.
This is the funding body that provides national support for libraries and museums across the country
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is the funding body that provides national support for libraries and museums across the country
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Maria Halgund
KI Library is monitoring the situation closely. We need to moderate speculation with facts (up until now, we do not see any signs that information is being deleted from PubMed) while at the same time working with new scenarios. (Our local copy of PubMed is updated weekly and goes back to 1995)
A temporary outage of the US government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
'Omg, did Pubmed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
KI Library is monitoring the situation closely. We need to moderate speculation with facts (up until now, we do not see any signs that information is being deleted from PubMed) while at the same time working with new scenarios. (Our local copy of PubMed is updated weekly and goes back to 1995)