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Deans Approve Emergency Funding for Nursing Resources Rick Moul - Thursday, 03 September 2009

PASCAL will open negotiations with vendors of key electronic resources for nursing in light of the vote taken by South Carolina deans and directors of nursing programs to provide funding for one year’s subscription restoration for nursing research and teaching materials. The vote was based on a projection of the costs and benefits for restoring the package of resources previously made ...Read more

PASCAL CAOs Approve An Emergency Funding Plan for FY 2009-10 Rick Moul - Thursday, 03 September 2009

[The following is the text of an update sent to the Chief Academic Officers of PASCAL member institutions.] On May 12, an ad hoc committee of chief academic officers from both public and independent colleges and universities distributed an emergency funding plan for the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) in order to stabilize the essential core database ...Read more

PASCAL Cuts Over 800 Science Technology & Medicine Titles Rick Moul - Wednesday, 07 January 2009

As of January 1, PASCAL no longer provides statewide access to Nature, Science Online, ProQuest Nursing, or Ovid Lippincott titles.

Due to a 90% reduction in program funding by the South Carolina legislature, we have been compelled to discontinue statewide subscriptions to these electronic resources, cutting over 800 titles in nursing, allied health and the sciences. Included in the cut is universal access to ...Read more

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