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 Libraries have to make tough decisions to be able to keep buying new things, so they are not doing anything wrong-- and I would day they are doing something right by making it public that these are available and then working with the @internetarchive 5 comments
 @Lignedescience These are dissertations they got from *other* universities. https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/08/internet-archive-to-receive-400000-dissertations-from-leiden-university/ Many countries also have legal deposit. @nemobis ok, my bad. Still a finer grained approach would have been warranted imo. @Lignedescience A "finer grained approach" would typically have required inventorying or cataloguing, which would have cost millions, defeating the purpose (cost saving measures). The Internet Archive sidesteps the issue with digitisation and minimal (initial) metadata. Almost nobody else is doing the same for collections on an international/global scale, that's the issue. @brewsterkahle @Lignedescience @internetarchive Mm. Most of the videos are shocking quality, though |
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive dissertations are not published books! The university where an old thesis was defended is often holding the only accessible copy, a fundamental resource for historians of science.