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Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules

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On 2014-09-13 20:18, polygonum wrote:
> This was an actual issue we came across as various medical research
> documents relevant to her conditions were only available to her within
> the local library. (They might have also been available on the internet
> at extortionate rates like 35 dollars for 24 hour access to one paper.)
> With the rarity of one condition being such that hardly any medics could
> even spell or pronounce its name, let alone know anything about it,
> access seemed very important. In the end it was simply too much of a
> burden to go through with raising the issues and trying to get them
> resolved.

ISTR that the UK was going to introduce mandatory open access publishing
for public-funded research, but that wouldn't be much use if the
research you're interested in is privately-funded.

I also STR a campaign by leading academics against the extortionate
prices charged by academic publishers, I don't know what effect it has had.

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Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-13 13:13 +0000
  Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-13 17:27 +0100
    Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court   rules polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-13 20:18 +0100
      Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court   rules Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-13 21:43 +0100
        Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court     rules polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-13 21:57 +0100
          Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court     rules Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-13 23:14 +0100

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