[OpenGLAM] Paywalls on digital content

Mon Feb 3 23:18:15 UTC 2014

I know a lot of libraries have been negotiating out of embargoes and limitations of their data when doing funded projects with big private or public genealogy companies. and then telling other libraries about it.  So it's important for folks at libraries to know that these things are negotiable and that there is precedence for other libraries getting paid for digitization and use of their documents while also retaining the right for unlimited use of the digitized content without embargo or limitations. 

Jon 

On Feb 3, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote:

> Hi Alastair
> 
> some people in the world of genealogy have found this a problem as well. 
> 
> http://www.opengenalliance.org/
> 
> This seems to be an issue mainly in the Anglo world. I’ve had conversations with people from the Association of Commonwealth Archivists. The UK National Archives are promoting this approach, and as apparently nobody else has a convincing story for how to achieve sustainability, they seem to be gaining a lot of traction.
> 
> best, Javier
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Javier Ruiz
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> 
> On Monday, 3 February 2014 at 11:22, Alastair Dunning wrote:
> 
>>  
>> 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
>> http://theeuropeanlibrary.org
>> (Based in the National Library of the Netherlands)
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>> twitter: alastairdunning
>>  
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