I say again: the NLA has tried, and will no doubt try again next time they have to renegotiate...
On Thursday, 6 November 2014, Leigh Blackall <leighblack...@gmail.com> wrote: > The thing is, all Australian universities are looking to cut > subscriptions, to save money, looking especially at the least used > subscriptions. If they pooled to the NLA, they'd be preserving those niche > or historic subscriptions, and increasing the diversity of options across > the board. How real is that risk of the publishers restricting the NLA. Can > we use the German model to ensure it doesn't happen? > On 07/11/2014 8:30 AM, "Juergen Fenn" <schneeschme...@googlemail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','schneeschme...@googlemail.com');>> wrote: > >> 2014-11-06 22:10 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','liamwy...@gmail.com');>>: >> > You'll not be surprised to hear that the idea of a single national >> license >> > has been proposed before (and especially supported by the smaller / >> > non-metropolitan universities. And you'll be equally unsurprised to hear >> > that the database companies don't like the idea. >> > >> > This is why the fact that you can get off-site access to a LOT of >> academic >> > database for free via the national library is an open-secret... The >> national >> > library is proud of the service but if university libraries stop >> subscribing >> > and instead tell their students to go via the NLA, then the database >> > companies might start disallowing offsite access in the future. >> >> I'd just like to point out that we have a similar scheme in Germany >> which is widely used and which is not dealt with as an open secret, >> but officially. The scientific libraries at Munich, Göttingen, Berlin, >> and Frankfurt have taken over the technical and the administrative >> side, while the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft provided the money. >> Everyone living in Germany may apply for access to the databases >> available. >> >> http://www.nationallizenzen.de >> List of databases: http://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote >> >> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationallizenz#Nationallizenzen_in_Deutschland >> >> Regards, >> Jürgen. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> > -- wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata
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