[Lingtyp] Ethnologue goes for paid access?

[Hedvig Skirgård]

Thank you Larry. I appreciate that this discussion has moved to also
include larger issues in research funding, it answers questions I as a
junior researcher am currently worrying about. I recently took the time to
read up on Ethnologue's funding for example.

I'm wondering what the Ethnologue's job is/should be. I primarily use it
when writing blog posts and doing public outreach - not as a primary source
of data in my research, and there is obviously a large segment of the users
that are not academics at all. A pay-wall is actually not that disruptive
to me. I'm wondering for how many others it actually is. Boycotting
Ethnologue sounds most unnecessary and bad. However, perhaps what will
happen is that more and more linguists start viewing it as a product for
the non-academic public?

Ethnologue have been very good lately by the way in responding on twitter
and elsewhere to issues, thanks goes to Steve Moitozo II, M.P. Lewis and
who-ever is manning the Ethnologue twitter-account.

I'm interested in learning more about funding for similar repositories in
other fields and if they're facing the same issues. Here in Australia I
know that the situation is getting dire, not as dire in the US though as
far as I understand. How is for example GenBank funded and what are
happening to them? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide

Sidenote, if you do want to follow news like this might I recommend
subscribing to these venues?

https://dlc.hypotheses.org/
http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog
https://twitter.com/theethnologue
http://languagesoftheworld.info
http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com (self promotion, I know but
still)

These blogs also feature interesting research news, but less typology
http://dejonedge.blogspot.com
http://www.replicatedtypo.com
http://phylonetworks.blogspot.com.au

The Humans blog can also be followed on tumblr, twitter and facebook. It
seems like more and more people are finding out science news and new
research on twitter nowadays than regular RSS-feeds or mailing lists.

/Hedvig

p.s. there's also a list of links of blogs, video channels etc on different
linguistics topics. It contains more entertainment and basic introduction
to linguistic though and less research than the above listed venues.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10H1iOjYrYVYMIiXuCtDUEcVz1iTP2213l2jTLYH5mxk/edit?usp=sharing

*Hedvig Skirgård*
PhD Candidate
The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity

ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia and the Pacific

Rm 4203, H.C. Coombs Building (#9)
The Australian National University

Acton ACT 2601

Australia

Ph: +61 (0)451 878 060

E: hedvig.skirgard at anu.edu.au
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