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Changing the Role of Research Libraries in Scholarly Communication
Alexander, Adrian Goodyear, Marilu
Alexander, Adrian
Goodyear, Marilu
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As the decade of the 1990s drew to a close, the basic issues related to the economics of scholarly publishing became familiar to most academic librarians, particularly those involved in collection development. A constantly expanding universe of scholarly information (particularly in the sciences), the continually rising cost of scholarly information, and the inability of academic-library budgets to keep pace with inflation are elements of the problem that have all been well documented and discussed continuously over the past fifteen years or so. One of the more recent and concise overviews of the scholarly publishing conundrum was written by Joseph Branin of SUNY-Stony Brook and Mary Case of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in 1998[1] and published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society in April 1998.
One theme of the Branin/Case article is that the commercialization of scholarly publishing in the sciences is "at the core of the economic problem" faced by academic libraries.[2]
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from "http://quod.lib.umich.edu".
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2000-03-01
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Michigan Publishing
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Alexander, A., & Goodyear, M. (2000). The Development of Bioone: Changing the Role of Research Libraries in Scholarly Communication. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 5(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0005.302