I am familiar with a journal that is available through Amazon, and it is either through an agreement between Amazon and Proquest or JSTOR. I don't know which one for sure, but it is definitely not through an agreement with the journal itself.
James
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On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:34 AM, acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> 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.
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> In this case, the searcher is on Amazon and is offered the opportunity to buy it then and there.
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> Patricia Fazio
> Collection Development Librarian
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> Camden County College
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> Blackwood, NJ 08012
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> 856 227-7200 x4402
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> From: acqnet-l-bounces_at_lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:acqnet-l-bounces_at_lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org
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> Subject: [ACQNET-L] Articles for sale on Amazon?
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> *Apologies for cross-posting*
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Liane Taylor
> Serials Acquisitions Librarian
> Albert B. Alkek Library
> Texas State University - San Marcos
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