[OpenGLAM] Paywalls on digital content

[Alastair Dunning]

Dear all,

There's a very good blog post on issues related to digitised resources with paywalls by Andrew Prescott from King's College London
http://digitalriffs.blogspot.nl/2014/02/dennis-paywall-menace-stalks-archives.html

Quite a few GLAMs in the UK have been quite successful in getting private funding from genealogy companies for digitised their archives. Genealogists, in my experience, are often quite happy to pay for access this. But this has a knock on effect on scholarship and researchers, who need to access the data in different ways, and also do not have the means to pay for it.

Is this also an issue outside the Anglo-Saxon world ?

Alastair


Alastair Dunning
Programme Manager, The European Library
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(Based in the National Library of the Netherlands)
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