On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Alec Conroy alecmconroy@gmail.com wrote:
This would be a wonderful, wonderful thing. We're at the point in a lot of articles now where access to scientific and historical peer-reviewed journals is an absolute prerequisite to intelligently improving articles. Most of us are affiliated with institutions that have access to these sites, but many aren't, and I'm sure that impedes our growth to some extent.
I suspect, like insurance, the database people wouldn't play ball if we allowed an opt-in strategy, but what about buying institutional access for the community of admins + non-admins with rollback or some other bit. Or, the community of people who have a FA or something.
Yes, I think that should work. I mean, when the University Library of X buys such a subscription, they also buy a licence for a more or less defined set of users, viz. "All our students" or even just "everyone who has a university network access".
So we should be fine there.