[Lingtyp] Ethnologue goes for paid access?

[Hedvig Skirgård]

Robert Forkel who works on CLLD at MPI-SHH in Jena would like to offer a
comment on public resources and their hosting to this list. He can't post
here though, not an ALT-member, so I'll forward what he wants to add:

"I think it's not only about Open Access, but about the fact that MPI
Leipzig made the data as well as the software available under licenses
which make it possible for any institution to take over at any point. I
think making transfer of ownership easy is the best realistic strategy for
services of the type of glottolog under the given circumstances - i.e.
without hope of unlimited support by a single institution."

/Hedvig

*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

On 4 January 2016 at 15:31, Hedvig Skirgård <hedvig.skirgard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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