On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Siu wrote [in part]:
It strikes me as being slightly irrational for a library to pay for
what it could get for free. Do you think a library might do this because
being online increases reader demand for the print journal? Are people
finding out about
I'm not sure this is a fair example since Encyclopedia Britannica
isn't a journal, but I think many libraries stopped paid online
subscriptions when the free online version came along. Certainly
has lost the look of a scholarly resource, but the information is
there and the cost is right.
Kitty
At 16:31 13/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
I have long thought that scientific societies should allow immediate free
Web access (IFWA) to the articles in their journals so long as they could
do so without negative fiscal consequences.
Here I report that revenues from library subscriptions to Florida
I have long thought that scientific societies should allow immediate free
Web access (IFWA) to the articles in their journals so long as they could
do so without negative fiscal consequences.
Here I report that revenues from library subscriptions to Florida
Entomologist have _increased_, even
