Mark,
My understanding is that the KIP is an international repository, so the
"member's only" access limitation you suggest would have to be extended to all
nation's "National" Speleological Association in order to be fair. Perhaps the
NSS Archives Committee could be encouraged to set up a similar service but only
for US cave-related organization's publications. Since the scanned newsletters
are already in place on KIP, transferring those to that new "local" portal
would seem to be a pretty simple process, and the collection could reside
behind the NSS member "paywall".
RD
From: Mark Minton via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com>
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 9:03 AM
Subject: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal
George,
According to the Karst Information Portal home page, grotto newsletters
are soon to be withdrawn from open access. That seems like addressing
the potential problem of location information with a sledgehammer.
What's the point of having things on KIP if no one can get to them?
Maybe they should be put into a special "members only" area where NSS
members can log in with their NSS number and some other credentials to
see the newsletters. I've been actively promoting editors to make their
newsletters available through KIP and many have agreed. Now that all
looks like it might have been for naught. :-(
Mark
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