The allegations that Michigan got paid for this are spurious and untrue.
OAIster is a service that Michigan ran for *years* on their own dime, and
decided that they couldn't carry it any more. I don't have any comment on
the OCLC's service, but just wanted to correct this meme of Michigan
benefiting financially from this.
Perry Willett
California Digital Library
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu>wrote:
> i re-read the annoucnement again, more carefully. You're right, they're
> taking away free OAISter access. That's messed up.
>
> Okay, who wants to start a new project to do what OAISter did, but better
> and still free? Maybe Mellon Foundation would fund it, are they still
> funding such things?
>
> I hope umich realized what they were selling out, and got paid well for it.
>
> Jonathan
> ________________________________________
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Thomas Krichel [krichel_at_OPENLIB.ORG]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:10 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC
>
> Jonathan Rochkind writes
>
> > I read this as saying that
>
> Why do we have to do OCLC astrology? Why can't they say clearly
> what they want to do?
>
> > If OCLC stopped providing the free access points to OAISter that we
> > are used, that would be a problem. Doesn't sound like this is
> > happening.
>
>
> http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=26B403F:09562C313F0DE2FB62E0BBD7DFD73DADF544A2D6437664E7&
>
> asks me to nominate an IP address to receive free access to
> OAIster from. Meaning that the IP addresses will no have free access.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
> RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
> skype: thomaskrichel
>
Received on Sat Sep 19 2009 - 15:17:25 EDT