John Cayley wrote:
> ......
> >From memory: Current issues will be kept freely online with full text at
> both sites for their natural life (until a new issue comes out). The
> archives will only be accessible to subscribers to the MUSE project -- that
> means institutions buying into a range of journals which MUSE will house.
> If you are affiliated to a subscribing institution, you will get access as
> one of those rare (?) perks of the ivory towerdromehoodism. They just
> haven't worked out a way to cope with individual subscriptions. Perhaps
> they will opt for a pay per view system, who knows?
>
Even that works shittily -- i.e. my "institution", SUNY Albany subscribes to
MUSE, but when I tried to go to the PMC issues from home via SUNY's library, I
was denied access.(a question of servers). So I have to go to the university &
use the computer in my office to login to the library & then I can get on. A
pisser, as that kind of reading is done best late at night at home with a
whisky by the elbow. -- Pierre
> Well this really pissed me off, particularly the case of PMC. The first
> issue affected was -- irony of irony -- the 'special' hypertext issue
> (links cut -> nilsk).
>
> What irks me most, as someone who is not affiliated to an academic
> institution, was the reaffirmation of the privilege of established
> knowledge brokering, and my prejudice against it. (Would I care if I was
> 'inside'? again?)
>
& how right you are, John,
take care,
Pierre
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