[Opengenalliance] Fw: [OpenGLAM] Paywalls on digital content

[Javier Ruiz]

FYI The view from the open archive community

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> From: Alastair Dunning <alastair.dunning at theeuropeanlibrary.org>
> To: open-glam at lists.okfn.org <open-glam at lists.okfn.org>
> Date: Monday, 3 February 2014 11:22:16
> Subject: [OpenGLAM] Paywalls on digital content
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> Dear all,  
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Is this also an issue outside the Anglo-Saxon world ?
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> Alastair  
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> Alastair Dunning
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