Comments on: Google Sued Over Scholar http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/12/google_sued_over_scholar.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google_sued_over_scholar Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: dda http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/12/google_sued_over_scholar.php#comment-22350 dda Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:11:07 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/12/google_sued_over_scholar.php#comment-22350 <p>Depending on whether an institution tries to subscribe on its own, or through a consortium (a bunch of Unis together), access to ACS's journals/PDF can be as expensive as 8,000$ a journal, if memory serves...</p> <p>Moreover, whether the search is free (Google) or paid (SciFinder, Scopus, EJS, SwetsWise, etc) is barely relevant in itself. Really, what publishers (hello Elesevier, Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, etc>?) are selling is access to the full-text of the articles. This is why they also sell separately the metadata to link directly from a university's search engine to the articles. Access being granted only if you have paid the hefty subscription price per subscription or per package. ACS is also very commercial acute, for a non-profit society: it sells access to its electronic PDF files with a "moving wall" policy: from January 1, 2005, journals published in 2000 will be transferred to the archives package. Institutions subscribing to the "current years" package won't be able to see access them any longer, unless they buy the rights for archives.<br /> Pretty damn good business...</p> Depending on whether an institution tries to subscribe on its own, or through a consortium (a bunch of Unis together), access to ACS’s journals/PDF can be as expensive as 8,000$ a journal, if memory serves…

Moreover, whether the search is free (Google) or paid (SciFinder, Scopus, EJS, SwetsWise, etc) is barely relevant in itself. Really, what publishers (hello Elesevier, Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, etc>?) are selling is access to the full-text of the articles. This is why they also sell separately the metadata to link directly from a university’s search engine to the articles. Access being granted only if you have paid the hefty subscription price per subscription or per package. ACS is also very commercial acute, for a non-profit society: it sells access to its electronic PDF files with a “moving wall” policy: from January 1, 2005, journals published in 2000 will be transferred to the archives package. Institutions subscribing to the “current years” package won’t be able to see access them any longer, unless they buy the rights for archives.
Pretty damn good business…

]]> By: Doc http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/12/google_sued_over_scholar.php#comment-22349 Doc Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:11:12 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/12/google_sued_over_scholar.php#comment-22349 <p>But do you know how much SciFinder access costs? As a chemistry PhD student at Cambridge (UK), I know it must be a hell of a lot, cause we can't afford even one licence!!</p> But do you know how much SciFinder access costs? As a chemistry PhD student at Cambridge (UK), I know it must be a hell of a lot, cause we can’t afford even one licence!!

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