On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Juergen Fenn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 08.03.11 20:20, schrieb phoebe ayers: > >> Most (all?) university libraries sign contracts with database/journal >> vendors restricting access to only faculty/staff/students at the >> university. > > This may hold true for the U.S., but as far as Europe is concerned the > situation is different in some points. E.g., in Germany all residents > are entitled to access some commercial databases that a national license > has been obtained for, cf. <http://www.nationallizenzen.de/> and > <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationallizenz>. What's more, university > libraries are open to all residents in its vicinity, offering on-line > access at least on campus to every user of the library.
Yes, on-site access is also true in the U.S. for public (state-supported) universities. Additionally many public libraries offer access to research databases, though these may not be scholarly enough for Wikipedia work. > As far as Wikipedia is concerned, the German chapter of Wikimedia has > just negotiated the first settlement for a premium database provider in > chemistry, see > <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier#Chemie_eLitstip_per_Codc.21>. > There are plans to expand this programme. > Cool!!!! I look forward to hearing more about this. (And I'm certainly not saying it's impossible for the WMF, just saying it's not only a question of money) -- phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
