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

Wed Jan 9 16:58:53 UTC 2013

The Gale Cheriton House office, the place where this person claims to
work below, has a contact number listed at
http://www.gale.cengage.com/about/location.htm .
When I telephoned, they said they'd not heard of a Marmaduke Robida
working for them, nor of the "public domain" dedication mentioned.
They've heard of the site now, though.

I thought folks might find that of interest. I would also suggest that
people not attempt to install or run the program the site offers.

John Mark Ockerbloom

On 1/9/13 10:48 AM, marmaduke.robida at galecengage-publicdomain.com wrote:
> Dear John, dear all,
>
> I acknowledge this decision might seem a bit disorientating. As you may
> know, Gale is already familiar to give access freely to some of its
> content (during the National Library week for instance or via
> http://www.galetrials.com/Login.aspx), but for Public Domain content we
> have decided to move to the next degree by putting the content under the
> Public Domain Mark.
> Our business model is now a freemium model, which means that we only give
> access to the content through basic tools like the Public Domain
> Downloader (which by the way is open source) and still give acces to our
> search platforms only to our subscribers.
> The title lists you will find on our dedicated website will give you
> direct access to the 1st page of every document (eg :
> http://callisto.ggsrv.com/imgsrv/Fetch?recordID=127020090000010&contentSet=ECFA),
> hence letting you download manually the whole book if you want.
>
> I hope I have dispeled your fears and that you will enjoy the rich
> documents we provide. But if you want to enjoy them even more, the best
> thing to do is subscribing to our platform !
>
> Yours,
>
> Marmaduke Robida
> Director for Public Domain Content
> Cengage Learning EMEA
> Cheriton House
> North Way
> Andover, SP10 5BE