There should be a ban on the word "sustainability" to mean "give me
your money." It's grating to hear the language of redwoods and great
spotted owls to justify another monopolistic expansion.
Tim
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_openlib.org> wrote:
> 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
> RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
> skype: thomaskrichel
>
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Received on Tue Sep 22 2009 - 12:03:55 EDT