Re: Further Re: L'Annee Philologique (fwd)

["James J. O'Donnell" <jod@georgetown.edu>]

I've had numerous very helpful messages documenting the problems created
by the current proposed license for l'Annee Philologique.  Here is one
very interesting suggestion that I've been allowed to forward anonymously.
I'm still very interested in hearing accounts of institutions and
consortia that are unable to subscribe:  it's beginning to add up to a
very impressive list.

Jim O'Donnell

> One option for SIBC/LBL would be to farm out the file to one or
> more mainline, experienced aggregator, as is long the case even
> in many other humanities fields (think of MLA, The Philosopher's
> Index, ATLA Religion Database, LLBA and so on). But I suppose
> that's too much to expect of the French, and apparently of the
> Germans and Belgians as well. Our field is in this respect badly
> served, with its variegation of electronic bibliographic resources.
> (The full-text situation is better.) I guess we'll just have to live with
> that inconvenience for the near term at least. With time the demar-
> cations among bibliographies / catalogues / fulltext / document-
> supply will mean less and less.