Libraries face higher costs for academic journals
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Growing numbers of university librarians are reporting difficulties in continuing agreements to pay for increasingly expensive academic journals that their budgets can no longer afford.
Academic librarians and publishers attending the annual meeting of the UK Serials Group (a professional interest group on scholarly communication) last week said that the organisation and funding of research publications would have to change.
“The budgets of academic libraries have not kept pace with the increasing number and price of journals their users want to use,” said Dr Fytton Rowland, senior lecturer in information science at Loughborough University.
The underlying problem is that journals are monopolies, argued Mr …
Source: BMJ
Author: Susan Mayor
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2048660774