... 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 and somewhat...

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... benefits Google's digitization effort may hold for information professionals. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Libraries Information services Electronic publishing Internet Intellectual property In Gorman's piece, he alludes to a supposed comparison by the founders of Google...

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... information about the impact of e‐journals on researchers' work and asked them to indicate their level of agreement with a number of impact statements (see Figure 3). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Electronic publishing Serials Information media University libraries Collections...

...). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Serials Electronic publishing Funding Libraries There are costs to the use of print that cannot be measured in monetary terms. These include time, effort and convenience. Electronic full text provides instant access for viewing and printing and downloading...

.... The question is not if but when will your library begin to integrate e-books into the collection? © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Electronic publishing Libraries Offering e-books to your users: some costs and benefits to consider Keywords: Electronic publishing, Libraries What...

...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...

...James H. Walther © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Publishing Electronic publishing Librarians Costs Scientists Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians and Publishers Tenopir, C. and King, D.W.Special Libraries AssociationWashington, DC2000...

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...: collection development, public services, cataloging and systems. This summary report focuses on the management aspects of each of these four areas. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Electronic publishing Management Serials Maggie recommended a book by Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman, Future...

... and the need to develop a planning strategy. In this setting there is a considerable mix of central and local finance. This mingling is a new feature of library finance and may also apply to the internal financing of information within an institution. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Conferences Electronic...

...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...

... 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...

... 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 private institutions in upstate New York. In different ways and to different...