Bye bye BioMedNet (and ChemWeb)
An Information Today article reports that Elsevier is shutting down its online portals/communities BioMedNet and ChemWeb. Both services offered a wealth of free content, particularly the latter’s Chemistry Preprint Server, the fate of which has not yet been determined. Both were launched by independent companies and then sold to Elsevier, who gradually raised prices on some of the online articles accessible therein. On the other hand, nobody is stepping in to absorb the products; the chief of BioMedCentral is quoted saying that their service already offers a huge resource.