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The crisis in scholarly publishing and the role of the academic library

Tinerella, Vincent P.

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Title
The crisis in scholarly publishing and the role of the academic library
Author(s)
Tinerella, Vincent P.
Issue Date
1999
Keyword(s)
  • Scholarly publishing
  • Academic libraries
  • Publishers and publishing
Date of Ingest
2015-07-23T20:48:30Z
Abstract
Spiraling costs and stagnant library budgets have made the acquisition of scholarly publications unsustainable for most academic institutions. Costs for subscription journals, in particular, have risen dramatically over the past thirty years. With the advent of a networked system of communications, however, many academic librarians have heralded the electronic journal as the salvation of scholarly publishing. An increasing number of librarians have proposed the idea that libraries, in cooperation with their academic departments and university presses, should assume the role of publisher as one solution to the deepening crisis. This article documents the serial crisis in-depth, explores whether librarians-as-publishers is indeed a good idea, and examines the state of the electronic journal in academe, particularly the extent to which digital serials have been accepted as legitimate research vehicles among scholars. In addition, the author suggests a number of methods individual academic librarians can employ to improve the acceptability of electronic journals so that they can eventually serve as low cost alternatives of scholarly information, and examines steps libraries can take collectively to deal with commercial publishers.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Katharine Sharp Review ; no. 008, Summer, 1999
ISSN
1083-5261
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Article
Language
en
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Copyright 1999 is held by Vincent P. Tinerella

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