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Whats with the weird oclc.org domain? I assume it’s used to skip the paywall but haven’t seen it before and the homepage or the site doesn’t help much. Origina

• samizdis 6y ago
  Not really sure. I've an FT subscription and often post articles, but I try to do a search and find an alternate link - quite a bit of FT content is syndicated fairly quickly to non-paywalled sites. A few days ago, an FT article that I'd posted and then searched for showed up with the OCLC domain. I've been trying to figure out how it all works, but have failed. If you try to hit "baldwinlib.idm.oclc.org", you get a login page. Would also like to know more about this - seems likely that many publications are archived via oclc. Edit to add: Just been comparing ft.com with https://www-ft-com.baldwinlib.idm.oclc.org/ https://www-ft-com.baldwinlib.idm.oclc.org/ and, at the moment, at least, the content seems to be largely in synch. I daresay that someone will close the loophole soon.
  • goldcd 6y ago
    Have a spare loophole - https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/ https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/
• compsciphd 6y ago
  its a library cooperative, its probably a way for library's to subscribe to content and because of covid19 they aren't requiring library logins