[pd-discuss] PRESS RELEASE : Gale releases all its public domain content freely on the open web

Wed Jan 9 14:38:56 UTC 2013

Do we have verification on this?  I don't see a mention on the
main Gale site, and for some reason the access mechanism they
provide is a "downloader" program you have to install on
your machine.  I'd love this to be true, but I want to make
sure this isn't a hoax (with or without possible malware).

John

On 1/9/13 8:38 AM, info at galecengage-publicdomain.com wrote:
> Gale releases all its public domain content freely on the open web
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> Andover, Hampshire UK, January 1st, 2013.
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> Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is thrilled to announce that all its
> public domain content will be freely accessible on the open web. "On this
> Public Domain Day, we are proud to have taken such a ground-breaking
> decision. As a common good, the Public Domain content we have digitized
> has to be accessible to everyone" said Marmaduke Robida, Director for
> Public Domain Content, Gale.
> Hundreds of thousands of digitized books coming from some of the world's
> most prestigious libraries and belonging to top-rated products highly
> appreciated by the academic community such as "Nineteenth Century
> Collection Online", "Eighteenth Century Collection Online", "Sabin
> America", "Making of the Modern World" and two major digitized historical
> newspaper collections (The Times and the Illustrated London news) are now
> accessible from a dedicated website called
> http://galecengage-publicdomain.com . The other Gale digital collections
> will be progressively added to this web site throughout 2013 so all Public
> Domain content will be freely accessible by 2014. All the images are or
> will be available under the Public Domain Mark 1.0 license and can be
> reused for any purpose.
> Gale's global strategy is inspired by the recommandations issued by the
> European reflection group "Comite des sages" and the Public Domain
> manifesto. For Public Domain content, Gale decided to move to a freemium
> business model : all the content is freely accessible through basic tools
> (Public Domain Downloader, URL lists, ...), but additional services are
> charged for. "We are confident that there still is a market for our
> products. Our state-of-art research platforms offer high quality services
> and added value which universities or research libraries are ready to pay
> for" said Robida.
> A specific campaign targeted to national and academic libraries for
> promoting the usage of Public Domain Mark for digitized content will be
> launched in 2013. "We are ready to help the libraries that have a
> digitization programme fulfill their initial mission : make the knowledge
> accessible to everyone. We also hope that our competitors will follow the
> same way in the near future. Public Domain should not be enclosed by
> paywalls or dubious licensing terms" said Robida.
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> Contact » Marmaduke Robida | Gale Cengage |
> marmaduke.robida at galecengage-publicdomain.com
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