A blog about of the "subscription" agencies cancelling service to an
acdemic society because
<< members are making such heavy use of the service that it is reducing
ProQuest's potenial revenue from library-based subscriptions>>
http://philobiblos.blogspot.de/2015/11/links-reviews.html
Links & Reviews
- Proquest unleashed a major storm of outrage this week, first canceling
<http://www.rsa.org/news/257604/RSA-EEBO-subscription-has-been-canceled.htm>
and
thenrestoring
<http://www.proquest.com/blog/pqblog/2015/EEBO-Access-Continues-for-RSA-Members.html>
the
Renaissance Society of America's EEBO subscription. Ellen Wexler covered
the story <http://chronicle.com/article/Subscription-Scare-Fuels/234003/> for
the *Chronicle*, and her piece contains good comments by Bethany Nowviskie,
among others. Wesley Raabe asked librarians or scholars to consider posting
<https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/proquest-eebo-what-does-eebo-cost-libraries/>their
institutional purchase costs, to provide some transparency in EEBO pricing.
Mitch Fraas pointed out
<https://twitter.com/mitchfraas/status/659895362203840512> the Hathi Trust
ESTC collection, which currently contains more than 10,000 scanned titles.
John Overholt, writing on Medium, argues "Together, we can FrEEBO
<https://medium.com/@john_overholt/together-we-can-freebo-b33d39618f8#.le1fwpde0>,"
maintaining—quite correctly—that even with the walkback, "we ought to take
this as a wakeup call. There is literally no reason for these centuries-old
books to be the monopoly of a commercial publisher who owns not a single
one of them." Let's make it happen.
https://medium.com/@john_overholt/together-we-can-freebo-b33d39618f8#.92z68…
with this plea :
It seems to me, though, that we ought to take this as a wakeup call. There
is literally no reason for these centuries-old books to be the monopoly of
a commercial publisher who owns not a single one of them. It is entirely
within the power of the libraries of Great Britain and the US to make this
invaluable resource available to everyone in the world without a massive
subscription fee or even a relatively more modest but still expensive
society membership. These books are part of our cultural heritage, and it’s
high time we made them available to *everyone*.
AND NOTE THIS INTERESTING FACT AS WELL :
<<that access comes at a high price — one that EEBO’s owner ProQuest
(itself partially owned by noted scholarly publisher Goldman Sachs) keeps a
closely guarded secret.>>
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2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
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E-mail : june.samaras(a)gmail.com
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com
http://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/
http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal