[WEB4LIB] RE: Article - "Post-Tasini: Pity the Librarians"

[Dan Robinson]

Odd, we are getting messages from the publishers for current material,
demanding that fulltext links be removed for copyright reasons (pre
Supreme Court decision). 

dan
drobinson at hwwilson.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lester [mailto:dan at riverofdata.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:57 PM
 
> 
> Friday, June 29, 2001, 9:15:29 AM, you wrote:
> 
> IFR> One group that'll be disadvantaged by the loss of 
> articles by freelancers:
> IFR> distance learners. Online fulltext databases are a real 
> boon for distance
> IFR> learners. Delivering copies of articles to remote 
> users.. the process
> IFR> takes more labor, more expense, and - more importantly 
> from the user's
> IFR> poitn of view - more time.
> 
> Yes, there will be some disadvantage to distance learners.  For those
> distant students who have access to LN, it could be a problem, and to
> those with a few other databases.  However, it will become less and
> less of a problem as the years pass, as the older material becomes
> less important.  It is clear that essentially NO material since 1995
> will be affected, as any publisher whose material you'd ever care
> about has had contracts covering "reprints by electronic means using
> all current means and all means yet to be invented" or some such. I
> know I've signed several of those, the first being in about 1993, as
> near as I can recall.
> 
>