[Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

[SlimVirgin]

>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 06:32, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Could someone from the Foundation please respond to the idea of
>>> contacting universities and content database providers and inviting them to
>>> support Wikipedia by making a certain number of log-in IDs available, with the
>>> benefit -- to them -- that increased citation of high-quality
>>> publications would potentially make these publications visible to a larger audience?


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:38, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> In connection with the Credo subscriptions Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation created the mailing list
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> It has a little bit of discussion from March to July, 2010.
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I think this is a good topic for this list, Fred, because we're hoping
the Foundation will consider reaching out for more of these donations.

Sarah