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Well, this is the thing: we're a small, highly-specialized collection, so I'm not talking about indexing the whole range of content which a university like JHU or even a small liberal arts college would need to--it's really a matter of a few key databases in our field(s). Don't get me wrong, it's still a slightly crazy idea, but I'm dissatisfied enough with existing solutions that I'd like to try it. On 6/30/2010 4:15 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > A little bit of both, I think. A library probably _could_ negotiate > access to that content... but it would be a heck of a lot of work. > When the staff time to negotiations come in, it becomes a good value > proposition, regardless of how much the licensing would cost you. And > yeah, then the staff time to actually ingest and normalize and > troubleshoot data-flows for all that stuff on the regular basis -- > I've heard stories of libraries that tried to do that in the early 90s > and it was nightmarish. > I wonder if they would, in fact, demand licensing fees. I mean, we're already paying a subscription, and they're already exposing their content as a target for federated search applications (which probably do some caching for performance)... > So, actually, I guess i've arrived at convincing myself it's mostly > "good value proposition", in that a library probably can't afford to > do that on their own, with or without licensing issues. -- Cory Rockliff Technical Services Librarian Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture 18 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024 T: (212) 501-3037 [log in to unmask] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]