[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Al Tally]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:40 AM, michael west<michawest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We cite books which aren't available online and in some cases out of
> > print. I don't see the problem.
>
> I take your point. Although a difference strikes me. I'm not sure it's
> valid but I'll throw it out there.
>
> Where a book (possibly out of print) is cited we should be giving
> details of Title, Author, ISBN and possibly Edition.
>
> With newspaper links we should be giving Newspaper, Journalist, Access
> Date...
>
> I'm wondering if, if newspaper content goes behind a pay wall, we
> would really have to be giving citation information that pertains to
> the actual printed copy of the article, ie, Newspaper, Print Date and
> Page Number?
>

Thing is, I expect most people don't keep newspapers, but people do have
plenty of books, easily accessible in libraries and in their homes (and easy
to buy). I don't know the case for other people, but in my "local" library
old local newspapers are kept on microfilm, which makes accessing them
really tedious, especially if you don't know when whatever you're looking
for occurred. At least books are generally easily accessible. Newspapers
more often than not are chucked away by most people, which makes citing them
difficult if News Corp does this and other news sites follow suit.

-- 
Alex
(User:Majorly)