Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Volume 37
Edited by Peter Brand and Louise Cooper
(E. J. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden, 2009)
ISBN 978 90 04 176447 * ISSN 1566-2055
This is not a new item online. Articles for this volume began appearing here several years ago, and now the volume is complete and published.
What is most interesting is the following statement
Through the generosity of E. J. Brill, all of the content of the book Causing His Name to Live will remain available here for free public use. Although the content is the same, the typesetting and formatting of the material on this website differs from that of the printed book.While at € 121.00 / US$ 179.00, this is not the most expensive of books from Brill, it still works out to 39 cents a page foir the print version, considerably more than the going rate for photocopying. I hope that authors and editors will take note of this open access model, and secure the permission from their publishers (if required) and post the content of books online, preferably in institutional repositories which will ensure long term accessibility.
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It is devious that they changed the typsetting and formatting from the printed edition which means you cannot cite it and will be forced still to acquire the $179 version in order to cite the appropriate page.
ReplyDeleteIt's not devious at all, type and format are the components of the publication that Brill claims as its own and will not allow online.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't a person cite the online version?
As a contributor to this volume, I was delighted that it remained available online in addition to being traditionally published. The printed version did not allow for the many color photographs that I included in my article (they are b&w in the publication), but the color images are included in the digital version, so people have an option. Open access brings so many benefits!
ReplyDeleteExcellent point Amy, and it makes the online version the more complete version, and therefore the preferable one to cite!
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