New strategy at NY Times and libraries

["Ann Okerson" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Readers,

I forwarded a little while ago a piece of today's longer article 
in the New York Times about their decision to stop charging for 
archives and some current materials.  I believe libraries have 
paid a significant sum of money for the back issues that will now 
be available for free (e.g., before 1923).  Should we now be 
dropping out of those arrangements?

This article may also be of interest in our thread about business 
models to sustain publishing, even though the item at issue here 
is a newspaper rather than a specifically scholarly journal or 
database.

Ann Okerson/Yale