Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:52:29 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Tim Spalding writes

> Can someone help me to understand this? It looks to me like you can
> search them in your browser through WorldCat.org, but not by machine
> and, presumably, the WorldCat.org TOS applies. If you subscribe to a
> FirstSearch you get access, and if you contribute records to it, you
> can get free access. 

  If you contribute records to OAIster, you can get free access to
  OAIster only from one IP address. 

> It looks me like a project designed to expose the "hidden web,"
> of openly accessible but unindexed data, has become part of the
> "hidden web" of *access-restricted* data. Right?

  Right!


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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Received on Tue Sep 22 2009 - 11:54:45 EDT