I think here, the most good we could probably do is in getting access to journals that your average public library won't offer. I do get access to some research resources through the regular public libraries here, and that's pretty standard. Maybe we should survey what those offer, to get a better idea where the major gaps might be?
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:41 PM, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I comment as a professional academic librarian. I was the cochair of > princeton's collection development committee on electronic resources > from the day it started. > > The typical budget today for e-resources for a major university is on > the order of three to six million dollars a year, mainly for science > journals and databases. The most expensive subscriptions to the works > of a single publisher can be over one million dollars, and there are > individual databases in the fifty to one hundred-thousand dollar > range. A typical budget for a good undergraduate college might be one > million; it will not have the most expensive journals. > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:11 AM, George Herbert > <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We need to get someone who's more of a professional librarian to look at >> this and comment. What are typical university library online reference >> access budgets like, for example? >> >> Phoebe? >> >> >> -- >> -george william herbert >> george.herb...@gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > > > -- > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
