petersuber<p>Update. "<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library"<br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/doge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/do</span><span class="invisible">ge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library</span></a></p><p>"The <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USDA</span></a> on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’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 <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ForProfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForProfit</span></a>. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing…Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SocietyPublishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocietyPublishers</span></a> charge less than such for-profit companies."</p><p>PS: (1) Of course the best ag research should be <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a>. But that's a goal, not the current reality, and while we work for that goal, policymaking agencies still need access the best research. (2) If efficiency requires budget cuts, why focus the cuts on journals from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishers</span></a>, which on average are lower in price and higher in quality? </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>