... or in the foreseen future, the demand for physical materials. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 E‐books iPad Electronic publishing Electronic media I am a daily reader of e‐book blogs. Although a seemingly trivial confession, I find the drama surrounding the e‐book alluring...

... Librarians Electronic media Internet Intellectual property Electronic publishing One of the most frustrating things about writing a reference book is that once it is published and in print, any errors or omissions in the volume achieve the permanency of the printed page. No matter how well edited...

...). Libraries Information services Electronic publishing Internet Intellectual property In December 2004, Google, the premier internet search engine, caused quite a stir with the announcement that they had entered into agreements with five major research libraries to digitize potentially millions...

..., and a VBA (Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications) macro was employed for all calculations in each of the deals offered. As has been noted above, the deals were all very different in what they offered and in the ways which electronic access was to be bought. Journal publishers Electronic...

... and stability. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Electronic publishing Serials Information media University libraries Collections management Canada The Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP) is a three‐year demonstration project funded by the Canada Foundation...

... and vendors were conducted. Serials Electronic publishing Funding Libraries When Gutenberg employed the movable type in 1455, it was a revolutionary invention that changed publishing forever. For five centuries, print was the dominant medium for dissemination of information. Books became widely...

...Susan Gibbons Electronic publishing Libraries © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Offering e-books to your users: some costs and benefits to consider Keywords: Electronic publishing, Libraries What is the cost of an electronic book? After directing two year-long Library Services...

...James H. Walther Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians and Publishers Tenopir, C. and King, D.W.Special Libraries AssociationWashington, DC2000 Keywords: Publishing, Electronic publishing, Librarians, Costs,Scientists © MCB UP Limited...

...Bruce R. Kingma This paper is part of a larger study on the market for scholarly journals in mathematics. This paper describes the current market trends for mathematics journals, the pricing of electronic journals, and examines electronic publishing alternatives for independent journal publishers...

...Elizabeth R. Mansfield Electronic publishing Publishing industry Comparative costs Purchasing Keywords Electronic publishing, Publishing industry, Comparative costs,Purchasing With the plethora of options for subscribing to publications, libraries need to evaluate which format...

... of which are currently in the public domain. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Conferences Electronic publishing Librarians Two recent conferences, Virtually Yours:Models for managing Electronic Resources and Services, Chicago, IL, 23‐25 October 1997 (sponsored by two divisions of the American...

... resides. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Electronic publishing Management Serials The focus of the ACRL, Serials Interest Group’s Fall 1996 meeting held at Ebsco Publishing, Ipswich, MA, on 18 October 1996, was on coping with electronic journals. The impact of this relatively new medium in areas...

...Karen Svenningsen Operating within their fiscal allotments, today’s information professionals are debating the best methods for evaluating the acquisition of a wide array of electronic information resources. Electronic publishing is affecting not only the way scholars conduct their research...

... percent split. Imagine, a library spending more on books than on journals! © MCB UP Limited 1996 Electronic publishing Funding Libraries Serials With apologies to Charles Dickens, this is a tale of two libraries. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Skidmore College are both...

... on their profession. Even so, economic factors enter into the equation more and more. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Economic conditions Electronic publishing Libraries Publishing Recently, Forbes magazine ran an article surveying the ever‐accelerating increase in electronic publication...