Re: New Indo-European etymological databases online (Brill website)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 66715
Date: 2010-10-09




From: dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 5:30:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: New Indo-European etymological databases online (Brill website)

 



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...> wrote:
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> As a native Italian speaker, I was so excited at seeing that even Michiel de Vaan's new _Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages_ is available as a searchable database on the IEDO website. On the other hand, it also appears that Robert S.P. Beekes' _Etymological Dictionary of Greek_ and Johnny Cheung's _Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb_, which used to be available for serch at the IEED Project website until not long ago, have been now moved to this new IEDO website (and they seem to be no longer available at the IEED Project website -- what a pity!).
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> I, however, see that a username and password provided by a set of academic institutions are needed to access the IEDO databases. My problem is that I am not affiliated to any academic institution, and I cannot consequently access those very valuable etymological databases.
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> WHAT TO DO? ANY SUGGESTIONS, ANYONE?

Look for a new hobby, such as refinishing antique chamber-pots. We are on the threshold of a new Dark Age, with access to knowledge restricted to the select few in their ivory towers. Soon it will be impossible for us peons, lacking credentials, to enter the research libraries of public universities. (And the library guards WILL be heavily armed. Knowledge is power, and power is too dangerous to be placed into the hands of the rabble.)

DGK


Are you kidding, it gets worse. Those of us who teach in public universities can't get quality stuff because most public universities don't have access to research libraries. I can't get anything that's truly useful in my field via inter-library loan unless the Library of Congress has it and they don't have everything and won't always lend everything they have. U Texas Austin has much more in Spanish but it's unaccessible to me unless I apply for a grant to go there as a "visiting scholar." And yes, they do have armed guards at research libraries.