Biodiversity, PubMed and the US Government Shutdown
As reported by Scholarly Kitchen during the recent government shutdown in the US many functions of the research and dissemination process came to a halt in an incredibly worrying way.
Well, the government have come to their senses, and we can all go back to work. (Hooray!) I feel a huge amount of sympathy for the anger and frustration of those whose lives were put on hold, but in the long run I wonder if the shutdown might not have dealt a serious blow to the idea of publically funded dissemination.