[Eril-l] Alexander Street's Open Music Library

[Vickie Kline]

I just saw the article on the new Open Music Library project:

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/Alexander-Street-Strikes-a-Chord-With-Open-Music-Library-116733.asp

I excitedly shared this link with our music faculty:

http://openmusiclibrary.org/

I should have read the article more carefully.

After doing some searching,  I emailed them this retraction:


*Caveat emptor.     *

*The citation and searching information about the resources is open.    *

*Some actual content is open access in the traditional sense.*

*But a large portion links either to Alexander Street *subscription*
 databases (to which we do have a partial subscription)  and Proquest music
periodical indexes (for which we don't have subscriptions - we have the
EBSCO one).    They encourage users to ask us to buy them!*

*This could be a fine tool if we could afford purchasing all of the
underlying databases in the future.*

*My apologies for being snookered by the fine print.*


*​*I thought I should warn this group so that no one else goes looking for
a pony...

*🐎​*
*​​     *

*Whoops.​*

Vickie

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Vickie L. Kline                vkline at ycp.edu
Systems Librarian           Phone:  717-815-1459
Associate Professor        FAX:    717-849-1608

York College of PA - Schmidt Library
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not be called research, would it?"

   -Albert Einstein

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