Good afternoon all,
This has been forwarded by a friend (Career Development Group President); I have forwarded it to LIS-MEDICAL as well.
Some of the comments on the website are particularly interesting, my favourite is "Let's hope Pubmed isn't next"...
Paula.
Paula Younger
Electronic Resources Librarian
Exeter Health Library
Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust
Peninsula Medical School Building
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Exeter
EX2 5DW
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-----Original Message-----
From: CDG Officers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rowena Macrae-Gibson
Sent: 04 April 2008 12:15
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Subject: US Government censors Popline searching
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Dear All,
You may have seen this from other routes but the Popline database has made the term 'abortion' into a stop word because they are worried about losing their US government funding.
For those of you who don't use Popline (it is a free rather than a subscribed resource) the database covers "reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues" so such censorship really is undermining their own purpose.
The full story is at
http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/why-is-a-government-fun
ded-reproductive-health-database-blocking-users-from-searching-for-abort
ion-articles/
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