Re: Articles for sale on Amazon?

Hi,
 
My first thought is that the publisher has signed an agreement with
Amazon.  In a similar fashion, publishers register with Google scholar
and then their articles show up there. The searcher is then led into the
publisher site, where they pay if they don't have access rights.  If the
patron is on campus, the publisher may recognize the IP and allow
access.
 
In this case, the searcher is on Amazon and is offered the opportunity
to buy it then and there.
 
 
Patricia Fazio

Collection Development Librarian

Camden County College

Blackwood, NJ 08012

856 227-7200 x4402

 

 

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Hello all, 

 

I'm sure we're not the only library who gets requests to order articles
that are for sale on Amazon.com - articles we already have access to. 

 

Until recently, I have not looked into the selling of articles on
Amazon.com. But a professor who is an editor of a journal has found
their articles on Amazon and has asked me for some help in figuring out
why. Neither the editorial board nor the president of the scholarly
association who publishes the journal knows how these articles were
obtained by Amazon. 

 

They have contacted Amazon but Amazon has not been forthcoming about how
they actually acquired the content; they seem more focused on whether
there is interest in making a claim for copyright infringement. 

 

I have not found anything in the literature about this, and I have only
found some cursory mentions of this phenomenon on the web, basically
authors saying "Hey, why is my article on Amazon?" with some folks
guessing it has to do with distributer agreements with companies such as
Gale, etc. 

 

This particular journal is carried full-text in Gale, ProQuest, and
EBSCO databases. The managing editor has tried to contact ProQuest and
EBSCO and not received any response, but they just might not be
contacting the right people. 

 

I'm wondering if anybody has any experience or knowledge about how
articles make it onto Amazon in cases like this? Meanwhile, I'll keep
exploring and maybe contacting folks at Gale, EBSCO, ProQuest and such. 

 

Thanks,

Liane

 

Liane Taylor

Serials Acquisitions Librarian

Albert B. Alkek Library

Texas State University - San Marcos
601 University Drive * San Marcos * TX * 78666

ltaylor_at_txstate.edu <mailto:ltaylor_at_txstate.edu>  * 512.245.2643  

 

 


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