Re: scholar.google.com
From: Timo Nieminen (uqtniemi_at_mailbox.uq.edu.au)
Date: 01/15/05
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:45:43 +1000
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
> I'd have thought it was an all-or-nothing, either you're payed up
> for the year or you're not sort of thing, but it's apparantly an
> electronic version of having bought a book to keep on your shelves or not.
The former might be OK as an addition to a subsription to the paper
journal, but it's really lousy as a substitute for a paper journal.
Imagine if the library had to keep paying subscription fees every year,
increased at the discretion of the publisher, in order to keep their
back-issues. Pay up or the repo men will visit! The libraries have a
strong case, and even Elsevier must listen. In turn, they say, well, OK,
you can have perpetual access, but you only get what you pay for.
The whole commercial ejournal biz is still experiencing growing pains. So
far, the solutions are not too bad. Libraries still complain about
price-gouging, but less than they did with print journals.
-- Timo
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