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Title: Ryerson Index announcement
Post by: Deb D on Monday 18 January 16 06:12 GMT (UK)
Some alarming news from the Ryerson Index;-

"It's a good news-bad news report tonight.

"The good news is that we just added 8,646 new records.

"The bad news is that News Corp today removed all their newspapers from Library PressDisplay (LPD). LPD is the web service whereby NLA and the various State Libraries provide online versions of newspapers via their eResources sites, with up to 12 months of back issues available. Both current editions and all back issues were removed with no notice to users. For full details of how it impacts Ryerson, please see our website."
Title: Re: Ryerson Index announcement
Post by: majm on Monday 18 January 16 06:14 GMT (UK)
http://www.ryersonindex.org/

oh.

I don't have any polite words to express my opinion here at RChat.   

Cheers,  JM
Title: Re: Ryerson Index announcement
Post by: deeiluka on Monday 18 January 16 08:42 GMT (UK)
Me either!    >:(    >:(    >:(
Title: Re: Ryerson Index announcement
Post by: Billyblue on Monday 18 January 16 10:31 GMT (UK)
Yes, it certainly was 'without notice'

I was back-indexing some Northern Territory News from 2015 on Saturday morning early (16/1/16), went to have breakfast, and when I came back it was unavailable!

What a blow!  It affects indexing of quite a few major papers   :'(  :'(  :'(

Dawn M