RealPage

[Leo Robert Klein]

On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 Donald Barclay wrote:

>Last year, Taylor and Francis, which publishes several medical journals,
>announced that its online journals would be available only in RealPage
>format. A lot of medical librarians, including me, screamed bloody murder.

Ebsco did/does the same thing on a few of their journals available through
Ebscoline.   We had a women from Ebsco doing a demo here about six months
ago.  Apparently she didn't think it was a big deal to require the use of
RealPage though we were of a contrary opinion.

PDF is so widespread.  It's a very hard case indeed to go with an
alternative.  We decided not to install the plug in on our public
terminals.  Instead we provide a link for users to download it for their
personal use.

LEO

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