Hanks for posting that nick - I was just about to write an email to say the
same thing :-)
Getting a National Library of Australia card is free and online, and
they'll post it to you anywhere in the country. From there you've got
access to LOTS of open and closed-access databases which you can
Given that each University spends a great deal of money for subscriptions
and the like, is it a reasonable to think that they should instead pool
that money into the National Library so that everyone can have access, and
the universities can save money?
On 06/11/2014 7:37 PM, Liam Wyatt
You'll not be surprised to hear that the idea of a single national license
has been proposed before (and especially supported by the smaller /
non-metropolitan universities. And you'll be equally unsurprised to hear
that the database companies don't like the idea.
This is why the fact that you
2014-11-06 22:10 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com:
You'll not be surprised to hear that the idea of a single national license
has been proposed before (and especially supported by the smaller /
non-metropolitan universities. And you'll be equally unsurprised to hear
that the database
The thing is, all Australian universities are looking to cut subscriptions,
to save money, looking especially at the least used subscriptions. If they
pooled to the NLA, they'd be preserving those niche or historic
subscriptions, and increasing the diversity of options across the board.
How real
I say again: the NLA has tried, and will no doubt try again next time they
have to renegotiate...
On Thursday, 6 November 2014, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com
wrote:
The thing is, all Australian universities are looking to cut
subscriptions, to save money, looking especially at the
Is there commentary or links documenting the attempt? It seems to me to be
something that Open Universities Australia, or Universities Australia
would/should attempt.. more so than NLA...
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
I say again: the NLA has tried, and
Hi Leigh
The Electronic Resources Australia (ERA) website has been left up by the
National Library - in case any other organisation wanted to try and resurrect
this program.
http://www.nla.gov.au/content/electronic-resources-australia
The Council of Australian University Librarians manage the
