[Lingtyp] Ethnologue goes for paid access?

[Hedvig Skirgård]

It's less the private and business part that bothers me if I am to be
frank, and more the way production and distribution of research is handled.
There's already a move in the "regular" academic world, in particular in
description and documentation, towards open access. Surely it's unfortunate
that SIL at this time chooses to become more closed?

It's quite natural that the linguist community that consumes and had
benefitted from SIL International's work now needs to ask itself if this is
really the best way to manage what is after all one of the most cited
catalogues and standards of our field.

Btw, maybe it needs to be reiterated that Ethnologue estimates that this
pay-wall only effects 5% of its users.

/Hedvig

*Hedvig Skirgård*
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On 3 January 2016 at 10:28, Everett, Daniel <DEVERETT at bentley.edu> wrote:

> dedicated. Not deficated. Which is nonetheless an amusing typo.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 2, 2016, at 18:27, Everett, Daniel <DEVERETT at bentley.edu> wrote:
> >
> > As a dean  at a private university let me say that nearly all private
> universities receive public money - through Pell grants, NSF funding etc. I
> don't know what Matthew means perhaps.
> >
> > As a former member of SIL, I would estimate that perhaps 1% of SIL
> members are motivated by science. Those who are tend to be very very good
> though. Again, there is an issue of Language deficated in part to a
> well-informed discussion of SIL (to which I did not contribute).
> >
> > And "being run like a business" to me only means making sure that
> universities manage their resources appropriately - from one who has to
> read balance sheets and avoid red balances.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 18:06, 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.
> >>
> >> Matthew
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