PubScience was a US DoE sponsored site which offered free access to scientific and technical articles. Commercial publishers lobbied the Bush administration to shut it down and have succeeded according to this article at Federal Computer Week. This is "privatization" at work...basically, your tax dollars go to pay for the research, and then to find out about the results you get to pay a private firm for the privilege of access to formerly public information. I don't understand how the public is better off...