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What happened to "Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ruth S. Freitag?
The Library of Congress is completing a project to update and modernize Library reading room websites. As a part of the process, the Science Section has re-evaluated its web content, retiring older outdated guides, while updating and migrating more recent or heavily utilized guides to a new platform. Ruth Freitag's "Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography" is one of several guides which are is in the process of being migrated to the new platform, but for which the process has not yet been completed.
You can access an archived version of "Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography" using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine.
Once the newly migrated "Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography" is published, links pointing to the older edition will be redirected to point users to the new guide.