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June 28, 2007
Just to get an idea of how other newspapers were handling online access, I visited the Wall Street Journal site to review their offerings. The WSJ offers an online subscription for $79 per year which includes access to the past 90 days of articles. The WSJ offers a surprising deal for $99 per year which includes one year of print delivery and online access. This $99 is less than the cost of an annual subscription to the Daily Times. The Baltimore Sun sends its articles to the archives after 2 weeks, and has archive subscriptions that are less expensive than the Daily Times. One resource that is probably being underutilized by local residents is the Online Reference Resources and Databases available through the library to residents with a library card. The resources available include full text archives of the Baltimore Sun, and the Daily Times(oops, shouldn’t have told you that), as well as Proquest which includes several newspapers and periodicals. The moral of the story is to make sure that you are taking advantage of all of the resources that are available to you. If you don’t have a library card, get one and then visit the library web site to access services that you are already paying for with your tax dollars. Post a comment
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The Daily Times is really proud of the articles that they print in their paper. So proud that after one week, the articles are no longer available for free review through the online version of the paper. The paper appears to think that articles that are more than a week old are worthy of being archived, and visitors who want to view these articles are asked to pay $2.95 per article to view them individually, without any pictures or graphics that were part of the original publication. Archive search subscriptions are available at more outrageous prices.
