Harvard Library has lots of subscription materials you have to have affiliation to view, but our online catalog has always been freely available for anyone to look at.
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Harvard Library has lots of subscription materials you have to have affiliation to view, but our online catalog has always been freely available for anyone to look at. We just been notified that because it's getting hammered by bots and scrapers, starting next week non-signed-in users will only be able to see the first 250 results from a search. It's a pretty marginal restriction, but I hate that we've had to move in the direction of making the catalog less open to keep it functional.
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Harvard Library has lots of subscription materials you have to have affiliation to view, but our online catalog has always been freely available for anyone to look at. We just been notified that because it's getting hammered by bots and scrapers, starting next week non-signed-in users will only be able to see the first 250 results from a search. It's a pretty marginal restriction, but I hate that we've had to move in the direction of making the catalog less open to keep it functional.
@overholt welcome to my grief, friend.
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@overholt welcome to my grief, friend.
@overholt though for discovery, a lot of folks seem to do ok with fewer than 250.
And they can add faceting or date limits to get more specific results in that 250 (at least until they can't).
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Harvard Library has lots of subscription materials you have to have affiliation to view, but our online catalog has always been freely available for anyone to look at. We just been notified that because it's getting hammered by bots and scrapers, starting next week non-signed-in users will only be able to see the first 250 results from a search. It's a pretty marginal restriction, but I hate that we've had to move in the direction of making the catalog less open to keep it functional.
@overholt Ugh I am so sorry. You'd think with all those AI tools Harvard has floating around (I have heard) they could have some interesting and creative solution to this.
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Harvard Library has lots of subscription materials you have to have affiliation to view, but our online catalog has always been freely available for anyone to look at. We just been notified that because it's getting hammered by bots and scrapers, starting next week non-signed-in users will only be able to see the first 250 results from a search. It's a pretty marginal restriction, but I hate that we've had to move in the direction of making the catalog less open to keep it functional.
@overholt FUCKING AI GAH
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