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resipiscent @[email protected] · 2025-12-06 · 17:11 UTC

Through most public library portals, "set Alert" within ProQuest-Gale newspaper database will email you all new headlines from any number of major newspapers and magazines which click thru to ad-free, full-text versions. An amazing, mostly ignored free service.

One key exception is Financial Times of London (Noam Chomsky's preferred newspaper, fwiw) which delays full-text by 30 days so I keep a shortcut on my phone home screen to a past date on archive.ph From here, I click the top banner and it refreshes to today's headlines which then click thru to full-text stories. Not so bad. The news itself couldn't be worse but...
https://archive.ph/DMrF0

#LibraryFinds #ProQuest #EBSCODiscoveryService #newspapers

#libraryfinds #proquest #ebscodiscoveryservice #newspapers

Till Grallert @[email protected] · 2025-06-02 · 21:36 UTC

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons @dingemansemark

This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).

In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by

- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original

I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, following the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.

#AcademicPublishing #Licensing #Piracy #PlatformCapitalism #PredatoryPublishing