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<b>From:</b> Alastair Dunning <alastair.dunning@theeuropeanlibrary.org><br>
<b>To:</b> open-glam@lists.okfn.org <open-glam@lists.okfn.org><br>
<b>Date:</b> Monday, 3 February 2014 11:22:16<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OpenGLAM] Paywalls on digital content<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">There’s a very good blog post on issues related to digitised resources with paywalls by Andrew Prescott from King’s College London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Is this also an issue outside the Anglo-Saxon world ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Alastair
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Alastair Dunning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Programme Manager, The European Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://theeuropeanlibrary.org/">http://theeuropeanlibrary.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(Based in the National Library of the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">skype: xcia0069<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">twitter: alastairdunning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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