http://www.foundhistory.org/2008/03/04/federal-funding-for-the-humanities/ by Tom Scheinfeldt Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.foundhistory.org/2008/03/04/federal-funding-for-the-humanities/comment-page-1/#comment-9819 Karen Needles Fri, 21 May 2010 21:35:07 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2008/03/04/federal-funding-for-the-humanities/#comment-9819 While I agree that LexusNexis and Proquest are totally overpriced and leave small school districts out in the cold, as a small business trying to do job providing the resources that the federal government cannot and will not do, I can't afford to provide FREE access. There are hosting costs, labor costs, storage costs, all must be paid for and unfortunately there are no grants out there, that will cover those costs. Nothing in life is free, and we are sending the wrong message to this generation by continuing to push Internet resources for free. Moderate subscription fees help to keep the project self-sufficient. Why can't subscriptions be considered as matching funds? Does the government plan on providing free Internet access to everyone? If you can provide me with a source for funding to get my project completed a lot faster, and grant monies to pay the hosting, storage, and labor costs, I would have no problem providing free access. Until then, I have to get funds from somewhere. A prime example of the "free" concept as a losing one are the newspapers. While I agree that LexusNexis and Proquest are totally overpriced and leave small school districts out in the cold, as a small business trying to do job providing the resources that the federal government cannot and will not do, I can’t afford to provide FREE access. There are hosting costs, labor costs, storage costs, all must be paid for and unfortunately there are no grants out there, that will cover those costs. Nothing in life is free, and we are sending the wrong message to this generation by continuing to push Internet resources for free. Moderate subscription fees help to keep the project self-sufficient. Why can’t subscriptions be considered as matching funds? Does the government plan on providing free Internet access to everyone? If you can provide me with a source for funding to get my project completed a lot faster, and grant monies to pay the hosting, storage, and labor costs, I would have no problem providing free access. Until then, I have to get funds from somewhere. A prime example of the “free” concept as a losing one are the newspapers.

]]> http://www.foundhistory.org/2008/03/04/federal-funding-for-the-humanities/comment-page-1/#comment-7143 Dan Cohen Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:17:04 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2008/03/04/federal-funding-for-the-humanities/#comment-7143 Great post, Tom, with a number of excellent points. CHNM and many other digital humanities organizations really do owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the federal government, and I hope that significant funding for our work and the work of other humanities organizations and scholars continues. Great post, Tom, with a number of excellent points. CHNM and many other digital humanities organizations really do owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the federal government, and I hope that significant funding for our work and the work of other humanities organizations and scholars continues.

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