On 9/27/06, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
So I can understand the publisher being upset if there is systematic downloading occuring; they've put a great deal of time, energy and money into producing this archive which they hope to market to libraries and thus keep their publishing business alive.
It was probably a bit silly to make it all freely available then.
On 9/28/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/27/06, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
but bear in mind that the archives, which were just completed and released, are only freely available to the community until November 2006. After that, they will be included with the Royal Society's journal packages, which are not cheap (though more reasonable than many equivalent publishers):
We have enough uni students that we could likely still get our hands on them if we needed to.
There was a discussion on a similar issue on the OTRS list recently. Even if there is no copyright in the material from the archives, the Society may have contractual rights against people who access the material from subscription services.
I would want to read the terms of use for the subscription very closely before I started uploading things accessed through a subscription.