From: Kirk Steele (ksteele42@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 12:06:36 MDT
WRT resources...
EBSCO is free for me, along with a couple of dozen other research resources.
Hopefully I will be able to afford an APA membership this year when I enroll at LSU. Since that is my career path, I can consider resourcing PSYinfo.
In accordance with the ethics of academia, however, and with regard to title 17 U.S.C. 116 regarding copyright, the only legitimate manner one can resource materials in this regard is to do so openly as a teaching resource. To do that, yada yada yada, a curriclum, etc., needs be established. Since this would be a non traditional forum, certain caveats and protocols would needs be observed.
Registration, disseminated sources, reviewed resource researching, planned and moderated discussions. The whole nine yards.....
In short, I'd like to see copy left versus copy wrong, but short of that, then I would forward an above board approach to public secondary education methodologies at CoV. e.i. the above or its ethical counterparts.
That sed, I think we need to engage our shared cognition in a way that promotes an alternative social ESS. Western Civ has too long been under the thumbscrews of Xtianity.
KAFGDS W
Hermit <virus@hermit.net> wrote:
The CoV is continuously getting into situations where access to an authoritive sources would be useful. To begin with, I would suggest at least Encyclopedia Brittanica and the Oxford Dictionary. Neither make it easy to cite from local media (which I have, but as they are Windows only, I'm not running them), Both are bitches to scan from (flimsy, easily damaged pages and tiny text which gives OCR hiccoughs) and both impose drasic restrictions on their use.
However, both have online facilities, which while expensive for individuals, would be cheap if the cost were shared. At least, if an individual subscription were acquired. To avoid breaking the licencing terms, a "designated researcher" might be established by the group, and this person, probably bot assisted, would make material available to answer questions posed by a closed study group, where material from these sources could be shared and discussed.
If there is interest in such a facilty, I would be prepared to set something up. The cost would be dependent on the number of members of such a group. Would there be any interest in such a facility?
Britannica is $59.95 per year and the OED is $295 per year. So $ 360. The OED has to be paid as a single payment for a year.
How many CoV members would be interested in joining such a group? Naturally the cost per person will be dependent on the number of people joining the group.
If people reply to this thread showing the maximum contribution they would consider, it will give me an idea as to whether to go ahead with this. Please don't reflect an amount more than you would pay if there is sufficient interest. Once we reach $360 or more in potential subscriptions, I will go ahead.
Anyone with access to other research material and able and willing to cite it to a closed group might like to mention it on this thread as well.
Hermit
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