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Yes, that's true, and here's the description:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/m-paul-lewis/ethnologue-launches-subscription-service">http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/m-paul-lewis/ethnologue-launches-subscription-service</a><br>
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They say you can access seven data pages per month for free.<br>
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I don't find this surprising. Ethnologue (and the entire academic
branch of SIL) has no proper academic funding, so it's normal that
they are trying to make some money out of their flagship
publication.<br>
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Incidentally, Glottolog has no proper funding either, but as it is
now hosted by MPI-SHH in Jena
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.shh.mpg.de/48816/research_outline">http://www.shh.mpg.de/48816/research_outline</a>), at least its
continued existence is assured for the next dozen years or so.<br>
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(I think we should try to tell our administrators that it makes
little sense to try to sell academic publications. Instead, they
should by properly funded by the academic publishers themselves, in
order not to drive academics even further into <a
href="http://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2015/12/18/is-our-scholarship-based-on-illegal-foundations/">questionable
practices</a>.)<br>
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Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30.12.15 22:16, Peter Arkadiev
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
does any one know whether the access to the Ethnologue is going to be by paid subscription only? When trying to routinely access the information about a random language, I got a screen advertising paid subscription for $60 per year, and there is no way to bypass it and get access to the information which was freely available a week ago. This looks pretty distressing.
Best,
Peter
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Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10
D-07745 Jena
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Leipzig University
Beethovenstrasse 15
D-04107 Leipzig
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