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

I understand the concern around #Clarivate #Proquest buying #ERIC database. They might begin to charge for access (However, I have some doubts that they'll do that).

Nevertheless, were there alternatives? Yes, the government should have never defund it, but they did.

And, unless there were any better alternatives of acquisition that I'm unaware of, the buying by Clarivate at least give some expectative that the resource could survive

https://boletinscielomx.blogspot.com/2025/08/admon-trump-desfondo-al-indice-eric-el.html

#ProQuest + #GoogleScholar = scam? Exhibit #123:

- Researcher publishes article in journal, using #CC BY.
- ProQuest republishes article, with author, title, date, DOI, licence. Also, with terrible layout, but without images.
- Their DOI doesn't link anywhere. You need to type "https:/doi.org/", add the DOI, paste URL, to find the actual publication. Grey zone of CC BY requirements?
- GS indexes the publication and provides the ProQuest link instead of the proper URL.

Aaargh.

#libraries #databases #ProQuest #Clarivate

"The removal of perpetual purchases from Clarivate’s sales models runs counter to library values of long-term preservation and access to information. Subscriptions might work for some libraries, but perpetual purchases are important for the preservation of the written record, especially at research institutions."

https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/clarivate-a-master-class-in-losing-trust

Aus dem Alltag der #OnePersonLibrary

#Ebooks sind für wiss. #Spezialbibliotheken ein wichtiges, häufg auch vernachlässigtes Thema in der #Erwerbung und beim #Lizenzmanagement.

Kürzlich erreichte die #LIS Community die Nachricht, dass #EbookCentral (#ProQuest/#Clarivate) kurzfristig auf eine "new subscription-based access strategy for academia" umsteigt.

Nun heute kurzes Aufatmen & #Erwerbungsstrategien planbarer: Verlängerung bis zum 30.06.2026

https://about.proquest.com/en/blog/2025/introducing-proquest-ebooks-the-worlds-largest-scholarly-ebook-subscription/