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

Wed Jan 9 17:42:22 UTC 2013

Dear Marmaduke,

You mention that the Public Domain Downloader is open source which sounds
great.
Where can I download the source code for this tool?

Kind Regards,

Sander

On 9 January 2013 16:19, <info 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
>
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> Andover, Hampshire UK, January 1st, 2013.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Contact » Marmaduke Robida | Gale Cengage |
> >> marmaduke.robida at galecengage-publicdomain.com
> >>
> >>
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