What if We Can't Rely on PubMed?

This thought has certainly crossed my mind in the past few weeks -- every time PubMed goes down, even just briefly with a 403 (or some other error), my first thought is; "This is the end."   

So far, it's only ever been a brief outage, and it has come back online in 10 min. or so -- Thankfully!

I'm not the only one with these doomsday thoughts ...  

Hilda Bastian at the Absolutely Maybe PLOS Blog wrote an article entitled "What if we can't rely on PubMed?"  She offered some alternatives around the world that we can fall back on if necessary.