... Computer software Purchasing groups This paper, updated and revised, is based on a presentation given at “Breaking the barriers: an European conference on Open source software solutions for libraries.” The conference was held at the RIBA in London on May 18, 2009. The theme of the conference...

... makes regulation doubly difficult. Academic libraries Budgets Purchasing groups Electronic journals Scotland The existence of the present big deal structure, with relatively little flexibility, is also adding a bewildering degree of complexity to those consortia currently going out...