[Lingtyp] Ethnologue goes for paid access?

[Hedvig Skirgård]

On 3 January 2016 at 10:06, Matthew Dryer <dryer at buffalo.edu> wrote:

> On 1/2/16 5:59 PM, Hedvig Skirgård wrote:
>
>> does not have regular academic funding (as far as I know) and is
>> therefore subject to running as a private business with sellable resources
>> etc.
>>
> Just two comments: Many universities in the U.S. are private and thus do
> not have academic funding in the sense of government funding (except
> through research grants). And even public universities in the U.S. are
> increasingly run like businesses.


Sorry, you're right. As a Swede I tend to forget this is the case. Still,
I'm sceptical towards moving from open access in language documentation and
description and in an important work that the public accesses to get to
know languages of the world.

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> Matthew
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