On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Alec Conroy <[email protected]> wrote: > This would be a wonderful, wonderful thing. We're at the point in a > lot of articles now where access to scientific and historical > peer-reviewed journals is an absolute prerequisite to intelligently > improving articles. Most of us are affiliated with institutions that > have access to these sites, but many aren't, and I'm sure that impedes > our growth to some extent. > > I suspect, like insurance, the database people wouldn't play ball if > we allowed an opt-in strategy, but what about buying institutional > access for the community of admins + non-admins with rollback or some > other bit. Or, the community of people who have a FA or something. >
Yes, I think that should work. I mean, when the University Library of X buys such a subscription, they also buy a licence for a more or less defined set of users, viz. "All our students" or even just "everyone who has a university network access". So we should be fine there. -- Michael Bimmler [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
