Good question, Jodi! I had actually reached out to our Ebsco Rep. She is going to talk to the tech support folks about persistent URLs, and to the product management team about “appropriate” content and report back.
Sarah From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jodi Hoover Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] EBSCO's Associated Press Video Collection Hello all- A few weeks ago EBSCO sent out an announcement about a new video collection that will be added to the Ebsco Discovery service on AUgust 1st. The collection will include 60,000 videos from the AP. That sounds interesting but then I read the FAQ's (http://tinyurl.com/o6nnkr6). In the "Which Subjects and Time Periods are covered" section, there is the following note- Note: EBSCO has made a point to remove any videos containing inappropriate content. This raised a pretty big red flag for me. Why is EBSCO editing content? What criteria was used to label something as inappropriate? I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this or had directly contacted EBSCO about it? I'm also not too excited to see that they can't/won't provide permalinks to the content but that's another story! Thanks- Jodi Jodi Hoover Digital Media Librarian Albin O. Kuhn Library UMBC 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 Phone: 410.455.2964 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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