Re: change in Encyclopedia Britannica licensing?

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From: Bob Callaway (callaway@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 16:31:26 PST

Well, the Library had an agreement for Britannica Online (and it's
still listed in GLADIS). Maybe that agreement has expired.

At 2:00 PM -0800 3/12/01, Steve Goldman wrote:
>Bob, I had the same access to http://www.eb.com:180/
>which became inoperative last week. I also recall it was a university based
>agreement.
>Steve
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Callaway" <callaway@socrates.berkeley.edu>
>To: "Robert McNicholas" <robm@eecs.berkeley.edu>
>Cc: <micronet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 1:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [Micronet] change in Encyclopedia Britannica licensing?
>
>
>> Robert, I haven't done a campuswide agreement for online access to
>> Britannica. Your department may have done a departmental agreement
>> in the past.
>>
>> It's odd that their fee-based site is still up, since the full
>> encyclopedia and the M-W dictionary are available on the free site
>> (which is trying to be an internet portal). I haven't looked closely
>> to see if there is any differentiation. But the free site is quite
>> useful.
>>
>>
>>
>> At 12:59 PM -0800 3/12/01, Robert McNicholas wrote:
>> >Thanks for the reply, Bob. While you did not directly answer my
>> >question ("has there been a change in our licensing agreement with EB"),
>> >I guess the point is moot since I have figured out how to rewrite my
>> >command-line dictionary lookup alias using the new Britannica web site.
>> >
>> >alias mw 'lynx -dump
>> >http://www.britannica.com/cgi-bin/dictionary\?va=\!* | more'
>> >
>> >-rob
>> >
>> >Bob Callaway wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I can search britannica.com and the M-W dictionary without a
>> >> password. Try this URL:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.britannica.com/
>> >>
>> >> At 11:00 AM -0800 3/12/01, Robert McNicholas wrote:
>> >> >Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> >We've been using a little alias for years to look up words in the
>> >> >Merriam-Webster dictionary, via the Encylopedia Britannica web site.
>> > > >It depended on the fact that you could connect to www.eb.com on port
>> >> >180, and if your IP address belong to a paying customer, you could
>get
>> >> >access without logging in.
>> >> >
>> >> >Starting sometime last week, this broke. The web site now asks for a
>> >> >username/password.
>> >> >
>> >> >Does anyone know if there has been any change in our licensing
>agreement
>> >> >with Encyclopedia Britannica?
>> >> >
>> >> >For those that are curious, here is the alias i previously used which
>no
>> >> >longer works:
>> >> >
>> >> >alias mw 'lynx -dump http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/dictionary\?va=\!*
>|
>> >> >more'
>> >> >
>> >> >(I know we can still look up words for free from
>> >> >www.merriam-webster.com, but the command line interface is pretty
>> >> >desirable, and I have not yet figured out how to construct a URL that
>> >> >will cause www.merriam-webster.com to automatically look up a word.)
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks for any info,
>> >> >
>> >> >-Rob
>> >> > EECS
>> >> >
>> >>
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