[bksvol-discuss] Re: No Periodicals (was: Re: Re: OP and Page Breaks Breakthrough)
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:03:53 -0400
Thanks.
I do think we should figure out a way to get professional and academic
journals as well as the other high end periodicals into the system somehow.
Chris Hofstader
CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: No Periodicals (was: Re: Re: OP and Page
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Hi Chris,
Sorry about the delay in responding to your question. I did look into what
Bookshare's policy was on accepting periodicals as it turns out Evan is
absolutely right -- we don't accept scans of periodicals from individuals.
The only periodicals currently available on Bookshare are ones that we
receive from NFB. They get the daily feed from the newspapers and
periodicals and convert it into a format that is accessible and then feed it
to Bookshare. (Right now we do not have the ability to accept direct feed
from newspapers and periodicals.)
Hope this helps answer your question!
All good things,
Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:45 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] No Periodicals (was: Re: Re: OP and Page Breaks
Breakthrough)
I'll have to look in the manual to see if there is an actual statement to
that effect, but in any case, I'm pretty sure that you cannot submit
magazines or journals to Bookshare. The fact that there are none available
from Bookshare already makes me even more sure.
Evan
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From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OP and Page Breaks Breakthrough
> Hi Chris.
>
> Congratulations on your breakthrough.
>
> Naturally, I don't speak for bookshare, but here's my take on your
> question about the Granta journals. I don't think you can upload journals
> (magazines, not diaries) to bookshare. There are thousands of scholarly
> journals out there and most of them would be of assistance to some
> bookshare members. However, scanning and validating them all would be a
> whole new project in itself.
>
> This is just my take on the matter. Perhaps you should write to
> support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for advice.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
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> From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:17 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OP and Page Breaks Breakthrough
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The other thing that I did was to change the OP setting that says, "uses
>> boxes" or something similar to its off state. This may have also caused
>> some of the problems when reading rtf output in MS Word 2003 and 2007.
>> So,
>> my pile of chopped books and Granta magazines will hit the in list pretty
>> swiftly from now on as I scan and OCR on one PC while working on another.
>>
>> Also, I never got an answer on how to submit our collection of Granta
>> literary journals. As it doesn't seem like one can submit periodicals, I
>> don't know how to proceed. Should I submit them as books with titles
>> like
>> Granta March 2007 Volume n? I do not think that magazines, even serious
>> journals have an ISBN number so am completely without a clue as to how to
>> bypass this item as well.
>>
>> Have fun,
>> cdh
>>
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