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The report is the result of a survey of 275 publishers, of which 183 responded; 149 responses were valid and included in the analysis. The executive summary is available free of charge from ALPSP. Some of the major findings are: 782 new journal titles have been launched by the publishers analyzed in the last five years; 75% of journals published are available online; pricing structures vary for bundles and appears to be tied to the print version; consortia agreements vary; and larger publishers offer simpler pricing and more usage rights than smaller publishers. The report concludes that the market for online journals is still in a developing and experimental stage.
ACRL, a subdivision of the American Library Association, represents academic librarians serving the higher education community. The ACRL Home Page provides association information for the national and local chapters and ACRL Sections, and links to ACRL publications and an extensive list of standards for academic libraries, collections, and services.
The CNI organization is described. There are over 200 institutional members, predominantly higher education institutions. All are concerned about the impact of networking on education. Four major areas of effort: general advocacy about networked information, content and organization on the Internet, organization and professional issues, including strategies and best practices, and standards and infrastructure. Specific projects in these areas are described. Of particular interest is distance learning/education.
Coverage is a wide ranging with emphasis on broader issues that shape policy for professional, scientific and/or academic publishing, both books and journals. Issues include details on Web design, server management, pricing, revenue collection and policy issues. Issue have a set of short invited contributions on a particular theme. Longer pieces covering electronic publishing from publishers and/or scholars are also be included.
This European academic digital publishing project is a collaborative effort of European universities and publishers whose aim is to support the European academic community by making scholarly publishing faster, cheaper, and simpler. The network will continue to expand into a digital e-publishing platform and will offer its European participants a technical infrastructure and a network organization strategy that will facilitate the total digital publishing process. In May 2002, the Information Society Directoratte-General of the European Union granted FIGARO a EUR 1.4 million subsidy for the project. Universities in The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Belgium are current participants. Other participants include various commercial publishing companies and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
This article recaps the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition's (SPARC) achievements and describes ways in which SPARC expects to develop in the future. SPARC has been instrumental in starting new journals, lowering the cost of journals, and stimulating increased publishing in the not-for-profit sector. SPARC's focus in the future includes the incubation of alternatives to current high-priced journals and digital aggregations; public advocacy of changes in the system; and education campaigns. SPARC and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) are partnering on the new scholarly communications initiative 1. SPARC and SPARC Europe were participants in the creation of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).
This site represents the proposal and findings of the WM-SHARE project, which examined the use of online repositories and information sharing amongst many participating institutions.
This website provides information on the establishment and maintenance of digital collections.
This paper examines how the study of American Literature will be influenced by digitization efforts. It also addresses issues of providing service and of gathering opinions from the field.
This report addresses the issues encountered in establishing cyberinfrastructure for academic institutions.
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