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The British Library will digitize journal backfiles The British Library has launched a program to digitize journal backfiles. From yesterday's press release:
Comment. Just last month, I wondered whether journals might find better terms for backfile digitization than Google's. This is at least another choice, but so far the BL isn't making it easy to assess. The announcement doesn't say whether the BL program costs the journal anything (the Google program is free), whether it lets journals charge for access to the resulting files (the Google program is only for free online access), or whether it's exclusive (the Google program is non-exclusive). But BL clients do, apparently, get to keep the digital files (Google clients don't). |