Apr
3Lest you think everything is online ...
I was pleasantly surprised to see not one, but two, articles featuring Georgetown University Law Center in my April issue of the Washingtonian Magazine. The first article highlights Prof. Lisa Heinzerling as one of the 30 "Green Powers" in the DC area for her work on the Supreme Court case, Massachusetts vs. EPA. The second article features the photographer who recently created the panoramic photos of the Law Center featured on the GULC website.
So, when I wanted to share these articles with a colleague, I checked the magazine's website and found out that the current month's articles are not electronically available. I then went to our E-Journal Finder to see if the articles were available through some other online source. While E-Journal Finder indicated that the Washingtonian Magazine was available on both Lexis and Westlaw, a search of these resources found that the April 2008 issue was not yet available.
Many magazines, such as the Washingtonian, embargo their material so that online resources don't take away from their print circulation. So, if you have a minute, check out the April 2008 issue of the Washingtonian, kept in the Loewinger Lounge or on Reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Williams Library and remember that not everything is available online.
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Posted At : April 3, 2008 10:50 AM | Posted By : Margaret Krause
Rather than reward the Washingtonian's anti-reader behavior of embargoing materials so they can't be easily accessed or read, let's just avoid them altogether. There are plenty of publications that put all of their material online for free, I'd rather give them my eyeballs to them than to a company that chooses to stick with a 1980s era business model to the detriment of the end consumer/reader.
They don't want me to read their articles? Fine, I won't. Let's see how well that works for them in the long run.