Well, it’s not “elitist,” but it has to do with money, of course. The colleges pay fees to the organizations, such as JSTOR and RILM, that house the journals. But yes, I agree, it would be nice if folklorists could access this information.

Terri Brinegar
PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology
University of Florida
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> On Apr 29, 2018, at 1:22 AM, CJB <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I hate this restriction on accessing Journals  restricted to big
> academia only aka registered as a bonafide student at a recognised
> college whatever. I research folk lore, song, dance and music - but am
> banned from accessing the journals that I need. I am only a pensioner
> but am deemed  too  ignorant to be allowed to read about others
> research. Its damned elitist and such an attitude has no place in
> today's open society. CJB
> 
> On 29/04/2018, Nathan Georgitis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Brewster,
>> 
>> Yes the idea of an open access publication model for the ARSC Journal has
>> been discussed. It may be time to revisit it and assess the potential
>> impacts relative to the mission of the association. For example, a certain
>> number of our institutional members, mostly academic libraries, are members
>> only for the subscription to the hard copy of the journal. Given the
>> pressure of increasing subscription costs for non-open access journals on
>> library budgets the association would likely lose at least a small
>> percentage of those members if the journal were open access. I'm not sure
>> what the impacts of that might be, perhaps negligible if offset by increased
>> royalties received from aggregators such as ProQuest, RILM, etc.
>> 
>> BTW, all members also have full online access to all journal articles
>> through ARSC's AMP database though the indexing may leave something to be
>> desired as compared to Google as it is not full text. At any rate I agree
>> with you that it's worth discussing as an association. If others have
>> opinions or thoughts I'm sure the publications committee and the board would
>> welcome hearing them. Please feel free to voice them here or direct them to
>> me or a board member privately.
>> 
>> I hope you get some ARSC volunteers to help with dating 15,000 undated
>> sides! And please let me know which article you want and I'll send it
>> along.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> Nathan Georgitis
>> Executive Director
>> Association for Recorded Sound Collections
>> 1299 University of Oregon
>> Eugene, OR  97403-1299
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>> <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Brewster Kahle
>> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2018 12:49 PM
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>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] make arsc journal open access? Please!
>> 
>> I am putting dates on 78rpm records in the Great 78 Project (we could use
>> more help!).
>> 
>> And I found an exciting lead in the ARSC Journal via google book search, but
>> alas, I only get snippet view because of copyright problems:
>> 
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=DjMJAQAAMAAJ&q=Velvet+Tone+1979-V+Jack+Miller+I+Want&dq=Velvet+Tone+1979-V+Jack+Miller+I+Want&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1yJOA3N3aAhWGj1QKHQsUCcUQ6AEIJzAA
>> 
>> Would ARSC be up for making all of its journals open access and then try to
>> get google to allow full searching of it?
>> 
>> -brewster
>> 
>> 
>> http://great78.archive.org  is the project and we have 15,000 sides without
>> dates out of 63,000.   We have a small group working through
>> this-- if you would like to help, please let me know.
>>