Paper Info
Title
Competition and cooperation: Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals
Abstract
The conversion of scholarly journals to digital format is proceeding rapidly, especially those of large commercial and learned society publishers. This conversion offers the best hope for survival for such publishers. The infamous 'journal crisis' is more of a library cost crisis than a publisher pricing problem, with internal library costs much higher than the amount spent on purchasing books and journals. Therefore publishers may be able to retain or even increase their revenues and profits while providing superior service. To do this, they will have to take over many of the functions of libraries, and they can do that only in the digital domain. This paper examines publishers' strategies, how they are likely to evolve, and how they will affect libraries.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.3138/JSP-030-04-163
JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital library,profitability
Revenue,Scientific literature,Media studies,Sociology,Operations research,Purchasing,Archival storage,Information market,Marketing,Input/output (C++),Profit (economics),Electronic publishing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
4
1198-9742
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
1.86
6
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew M. Odlyzko11286413.71