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Fee-based or Subscription Web Sites

Not all information on the web is available for free; some sites are restricted to paid subscribers.

  • University/Organization subscriptions
[image of selected fee-based databases] Often, universities and other organizations such as law firms and businesses subscribe to specialized databases on the web. These databases can only be accessed by members of a selected community. For example, most of the electronic databases provided by the Florida International University (FIU) Libraries are only available to the FIU campus community.

  • Individual/Personal subscriptions
Subscriptions to fee-based web resources such as the Inter-Am database, are also available to individuals.

[Inter-American Free Trade Report and InterAm Database]

Some newspapers and magazines provide the full-text of their issues on the web to subscribers who are willing to pay. The Wall Street Journal, for example, has a web version that is available by subscription.
[The Wall Street Journal]

Commercial services, such as providing customized information to individuals, are also available, for a fee. An example of one such service is Hoover's company profiles.

[Hoover's Online]

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