Hi Jacquie and others,
Hmmmm, I also wonder if any of the payment goes back to the original authors
of the articles?
Our colleague Amanda Cedaro from Australia is pretty incensed about this
trend of re-selling of professional materials with no compensation to the
original author.
Would-be authors - KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SIGNING when you a publications sends
you its boiler-plate agreement. You might be interested in:
http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2007/3/1
5/a-father-son-chat.html
http://tinyurl.com/28cq99
All the very best,
Doug
Doug Johnson
Director of Media and Technology
Mankato Area Public Schools
Box 8713, 1351 S Riverfront Dr.
Mankato MN 56001-8714
Phone: 507-387-7698 x 473
E-mail: dougj@doug-johnson.com
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Twain
On 6/1/07 9:35 AM, "Jacqueline Henry" <JHenry@GANANDA.ORG> wrote:
> I have noticed lately that Amazon has MANY professional level journal articles
> for sale on thier site. I wonder....
>
> 1. Do they sell many of these articles?
>
> 2. Why would people spend $5, $10, or more for articles that in many cases
> they can get free from library subscription services? For instance - I just
> ran across this article: Online-Powered School Libraries. By: Richardson,
> Will. District Administration, Jan2007, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p62-63, 2p; which I
> was able to print using EBSCOhost Masterfile Select - provided free to NY
> residents via New York State library funding.
>
> 3. Perhaps there are not enough states that provide these databases?
>
> 4. And the most likely scenario - perhaps the databases are not being
> promoted enough.
>
> 5. Why is it SO hard to get people to percieve libraries as free access to
> resources in all formats - digital as well as books. How do we break out and
> get people to realize that computers have not replaced libraries. That
> libraries enhance access to digital information. Getting people to connect
> libraries with loaning videos etc. did not seem nearly as steep a learning
> curve.
>
> Feeling a bit philisophical today I guess....
>
> Jacquie
>
> "The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for poetry
> and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American way."
>
> From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jacquie Henry, MLS
> Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
> Gananda Central School District
> 3195 Wiedrick Road
> P.O. Box 609
> Macedon, NY 14502
> 315-986-3521 x 3144
> jhenry@gananda.org
> Library Page: http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
> Blog: http://nlcommunities.com/communities/wanderings/default.aspx
>
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