JISC in the UK may be cutting back on funding and support for the excellent Intute directory to web resources.
A newsletter to supporters and users said,
"Following the JISC review of spending priorities for the academic year 2010-11, the decision was made to significantly reduce the current funding to Intute in the context of an expectation that JISC will be required to find real term funding savings. JISC will continue to support some aspects of Intute (to be confirmed in mid October 2009), and especially its Internet research skills activities, but they have recommended that we refocus as an organisation and look at our current business model. In the current economic climate we expect that this will just be one of many difficult public funding decisions."
Cut backs in funding for scholarly directories is a blight - like a virus spreading through the information kingdom.
Posted by Gwen at September 4, 2009 02:19 AM