NLM® and NASA Collaborative Arrangement for Space Life Sciences Data Ceases
In October 2005 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) notified NLM that it was ending the collaborative arrangement it has had with NLM since 1993 when the two groups worked together on the creation of the SPACELINE® database. This decision is the result of NASA budget cuts and reallocation of project priorities.
Once NASA completes in process work, it will no longer contribute records to MEDLINE® and LocatorPlus. However, NLM will continue its policy to add appropriate citations to the PubMed Space subset. These NLM created records will not have the added NASA fields for Investigator, Other ID, Other Terms, Space Flight Mission, and General Notes. Existing Space Life Sciences data will remain in MEDLINE and LocatorPlus. The ability to search PubMed and the NLM Gateway using the Space subset will also remain.
