To: Earlie who wrote (105453 ) 5/30/2001 9:50:41 AM From: Ilaine Read Replies (2) | Respond to Earlie - re: web in general. Reports of its demise continue to be premature. There is less of the free stuff and more of the pay stuff, no surprise there. The news sources, like Yahoo and CNN.com add more video and radio every day. I haven't noticed less stock stuff - I've got a couple hundred links for stock related stuff and have no idea whether they all work, but the ones I use regularly all still work fine. The genealogy sites, which are one of the top three uses on the net, are adding digitized images of historical records, like the decennial census, which is something new - those are pay sites - newspapers are adding digitized images of archival material to their sites - those are pay sites, too. My public library subscribes to some of the sites, and I can use my library card number to log onto the library website and download the articles for free, e.g., from the Electric Library. The medical journals and scholarly journals I use for research have added pay archives, as well - you can now order one copy of an article via .pdf for about $5. A lot of the scholarly journals are accessible online from the nearest university and the big hospital nearby lets members of the community use terminals in their medical library afterhours and I can print the articles for free.
