Comments on: EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press

By: Has EBSCO become the new evil empire? | Information Wants To Be Free

Has EBSCO become the new evil empire? | Information Wants To Be Free — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:02:57 +0000

[...] was less than thrilled with the way EBSCO has dealt with some of its customers vis-à-vis Harvard Business Review. I thought it was pretty evil that they signed exclusive deals for all of those Time, Inc. [...]

By: So Big It Fails | Peer to Peer Review - 4/8/2010 - Library Journal

So Big It Fails | Peer to Peer Review - 4/8/2010 - Library Journal — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:25:06 +0000

[...] was provoked to criticize EBSCO because, after a series of unfortunate events, her Rubicon was crossed: a scholarly society that publishes a journal [...]

By: HSLIC Web Advisory Committee: Has EBSCO become the new evil empire?

HSLIC Web Advisory Committee: Has EBSCO become the new evil empire? — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:02:09 +0000

[...] Has EBSCO become the new evil empire?: "Absolutely.I was less than thrilled with the way EBSCO has dealt with some of its customers vis-à-vis Harvard Business Review. I thought it was pretty evil that they signed exclusive deals for all of those Time, Inc. [...]

By: Cognitive dissonance : The Book of Trogool

Cognitive dissonance : The Book of Trogool — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:44:06 +0000

[...] is the same school that plays horrendous anti-library, anti-education games with their flagship Harvard Business [...]

By: Harvard Business School open access policy « Bibliographic Wilderness

Harvard Business School open access policy « Bibliographic Wilderness — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:35:06 +0000

[...] (and especially HBR Case Studies) are known to be some of (the) (strictest) (publishers) (around) when it comes to controlling their intellectual property. They [...]

By: Gale: An open letter to the library community - LSW - FriendFeed

Gale: An open letter to the library community - LSW - FriendFeed — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:38:43 +0000

[...] – D0r0th34 After last year's Harvard Business Review/EBSCO thing, I've got no love for EBSCO. http://dltj.org/article... – Stephen Francoeur oh, me neither — let 'em fry. but I feel that way about MOST purveyors of [...]

By: » EBSCO’s Exclusive Content Deals Reference at Newman Library

» EBSCO’s Exclusive Content Deals Reference at Newman Library — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:52:08 +0000

[...] It is worth remembering here the exclusive deal that Harvard Business Review had struck with EBSCO that prevents EBSCO customers from creating stable URLs to records for HBR articles. For details on that, read Paul Pival’s posts on his Distant Library blog and Peter Murray’s post on his Distributed Library Technology Jester blog. [...]

By: Copyright Hall of Janus? : Harvard University’s Two-Faced Approach to Copyright « The Learned Fangirl

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:17:26 +0000

[...] was reminded of the practical difficulty of working within this policy, based on the EBSCO database forbidding deep linking directly to specific [...]

By: Copyright Advisory Network » Copyright Hall of Janus? : Harvard University’s Two-Faced Approach to Copyright

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:10:03 +0000

[...] was reminded of the practical difficulty of working within this policy, based on the EBSCO database forbidding deep linking directly to specific [...]

By: the Jester

the Jester — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:53:37 +0000

Good question; I don’t know if a path through a link resolver would trigger the same thing on EBSCO’s end. It might because I think it is the page that has the link resolver URL on it that is still transmitted in the ‘referrer’ header. It wouldn’t get replaced with the link resolver URL. So a direct link and a link resolver link would still have the same ‘referrer’ header.