{"id":291,"date":"2011-07-10T22:07:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=291"},"modified":"2011-07-10T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T11:07:24","slug":"accessing-scholarly-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"accessing scholarly articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit I do not understand the publishing world. Aside from the astronomical prices for books from some publishing houses, there are some even more perplexing pricing models out there. Today I followed a link to a four page book review in Dead Sea Discoveries which took me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/brill\/dsd\/2011\/00000018\/00000001\/art00006\" target=\"_blank\">ingenta<font color=\"orange\">connect<\/font><\/a> where I can purchase this review for a &#8220;mere&#8221; $35.00.<\/p>\n<p>By way of contrast, I can buy the entire book which was reviewed \u2014\u00a0Fitzmeyer&#8217;s 248 page <i> A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short History<\/i>, for around $20.00 (including delivery) from a number of major book sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Now Robert Holmstedt is an excellent scholar, but I have to draw the line at paying more for a short review than for the entire book under review! It is difficult to see how organisations like ingenta<font color=\"orange\">connect<\/font> are serving the scholarly community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit I do not understand the publishing world. Aside from the astronomical prices for books from some publishing houses, there are some even more perplexing pricing models out there. Today I followed a link to a four page book review in Dead Sea Discoveries which took me to ingentaconnect where I can purchase&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}