On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:38:17 -0600, Elizabeth Meylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is the librarian side of my job speaking.
>
> My guess is that they use the registration data/demographics to generate
> some advertising revenues.

as I stated earlier that is exactly what they do, by collecting the
demographics they can go to their advertisers and say "see this is who
visits or webpages"

> I think it's great that you can access
> articles just by registering.  (I keep all my passwords in the Notes
> section of Outlook which makes it easy to remember them.)

an excellent idea

>Plus you can
> keep from going to copyright hell by just sending the link in an e-mail
> instead of copying the whole article.  It's a small inconvenience for
> all the information you can get.

deeplinking is the safest way to share stories with colleagues, and as
you rightly noted keeps you out of copyright hell. many of the major
publishers have 'bots scouring the 'net looking for their articles. I
should know

Peterk

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