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 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 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 is that risk of the publishers restricting the NLA. Can >> we use the German model to ensure it doesn't happen? >> On 07/11/2014 8:30 AM, "Juergen Fenn" <schneeschme...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 companies don't like the idea. >>> > >>> > This is why the fact that you can get off-site access to a LOT of >>> academic >>> > database for free via the national library is an open-secret... The >>> national >>> > library is proud of the service but if university libraries stop >>> subscribing >>> > and instead tell their students to go via the NLA, then the database >>> > companies might start disallowing offsite access in the future. >>> >>> I'd just like to point out that we have a similar scheme in Germany >>> which is widely used and which is not dealt with as an open secret, >>> but officially. The scientific libraries at Munich, Göttingen, Berlin, >>> and Frankfurt have taken over the technical and the administrative >>> side, while the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft provided the money. >>> Everyone living in Germany may apply for access to the databases >>> available. >>> >>> http://www.nationallizenzen.de >>> List of databases: http://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote >>> >>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationallizenz#Nationallizenzen_in_Deutschland >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jürgen. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >>> >> > > -- > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- -- Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> +61(0)404561009
_______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
