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SkinnySkins t1_isoske5 wrote

Reply to comment by fashionscholar in Online Library Access by Adorable-Ad-3223

They've started to restrict non-residents in New York because of that.

If only there was a national consortium of digital libraries for smaller library districts though....

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Itsall_literal t1_istoxbi wrote

A national consortium of digital libraries would be dope! We have a consortium of digital resources held by academic libraries here in my province in Canada, it extends the resources available to the hundreds of thousands for students. It blows my mind thinking about it sometimes, but I'm a library nerd.

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SkinnySkins t1_istp2yr wrote

ikr! it would be like pulling teeth with publishers trying to get them not to fight it tooth and nail though :(

itll happen eventually, i hope at least

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Itsall_literal t1_istpjl3 wrote

Publisher's really are an issue. Unfortunately we haven't figured out a distribution process that has no bias. I honestly think libraries are capable of taking over publishing.

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