On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:41 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? > Thank you, David. Are those prices proprietary or sensitive, or would it be possible for you to release a list of what your libraries subscribe to, for discussion and analysis purposes? I think the "can we afford $6 million a year" answer is a clear but not absolute no (with a compelling argument, it's in the range of charitable donations we could conceivably ask for). But would for example $100,000, or $500,000, make a significantly useful amount to work with? What could we get for that, and what would be missing? -- -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