<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I just saw the article on the new Open Music Library project:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/Alexander-Street-Strikes-a-Chord-With-Open-Music-Library-116733.asp">http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/Alexander-Street-Strikes-a-Chord-With-Open-Music-Library-116733.asp</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I excitedly shared this link with our music faculty:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://openmusiclibrary.org/">http://openmusiclibrary.org/</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I should have read the article more carefully.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After doing some searching, I emailed them this retraction:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Caveat emptor. </i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>The citation and searching information about the resources is open. </i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Some actual content is open access in the traditional sense.</i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>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!</i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>This could be a fine tool if we could afford purchasing all of the underlying databases in the future.</i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>My apologies for being snookered by the fine print.</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i></i>I thought I should warn this group so that no one else goes looking for a pony...</div></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i><br></i></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i>🐎</i></div><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Whoops.</div></i></span><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Vickie</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><p>Vickie L. Kline <a href="mailto:vkline@ycp.edu" target="_blank">vkline@ycp.edu</a><br>Systems Librarian Phone: 717-815-1459<br>Associate Professor FAX: 717-849-1608 </p>
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<p> -Albert Einstein<br></p></div>
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