My name is . . . in China. I am asked to write an essay for my M Div on the subject of "what is Isaiah's Contribution . . .?" I surf the web and read Isaiah 1:2-20 Bibliography you wrote and with your expertise in that field, would you give me some insight relating to the my subject or introduce any books or articles that might be of help? I can't excess the needed resources for my essay because of the nature of the country I live and serve in.My only quibble, posted as a comment to his blog also is to add a qualification to the headline: "not behind (inaccessible) pay to view barriers". Many of the resources needed for an MDiv student are online already on the sites of the great and wonderful academic content aggregators (like EBSCO and ATLA).
But the cost is too high for this person's institution, and is too high for most individials. There is an increasing global digital divide is between those with institutional subscriptions and those without (whether because they have no entry to an institution, or because their institution is not wealthy enough).
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[to Del.icio.us]
A lot of these sites already have tiered pay levels. For instance, many majority world institutions can access JSTOR for free.
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Charles Halton, at
March 4, 2010 2:00 PM
They do indeed :) and that's a trend to applaud. Though a somewhat crude approach to a nuanced problem. My impression is that many institutions and individuals who have less resources do not (as a matter of fact and ignoring the reasons, which may simply include ignorance of such possibilities) have access to allow a Western style of scholarship "sitting on the shoulders of giants" to flourish.
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Tim, at
March 5, 2010 6:35 AM
Also very often readers in third world countries, even if they had the money to pay for these resources, would not be able to do so because they don't have internationally recognised credit cards - which may be unavailable, restricted to those with good regular salaries, or very expensive.
By Peter Kirk, at
March 5, 2010 6:46 AM
