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The age of digital librarianship is here to stay, and if you're interested in keeping the operating costs of your information provision within certain workable parameters, then you'll want to tap into the direction and futuristic vision in The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment. In this collection of addresses and papers by world-renowned experts on the subject of contemporary librarianship, you'll see how information professionals around the globe are coping with an ever-expanding knowledge base, given their current economic constraints and budgets.The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment comes to you on the many new waves of technology that have made it possible to access the largest base of digital information to date. You'll come to grips with the ever-looming questions of cost and expense in this rapidly changing and diversifying information arena, and you'll adopt sound plans for an economically stable means of keeping your own library in high operation. Specifically, you'll discover important direction relating to this prevalent concern, including: challenging marketplace solutions to problems in the economics of information economic modeling of investments in information resources at academic institutions case studies in transforming the scholarly process the salvific potential of e-serials the economics of resource sharing, consortia, and document delivery measuring costs and benefits of distance learningIt's true that with increased efficiency and technological development comes an increase in cost--and the world's libraries are no exception. In reading The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment, you'll become better equipped to deal with the financial strains the new waves of technological advancement have put on your current methods of information acquisition.

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Contents Preface PART I: CHALLENGING MARKETPLACE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS IN THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION Conference Themes Welcome and Introductory Remarks Information Technology and the Transformation of the University: Keynote Address Costs and Benefits of Investments in Technology: How Can Technology Serve the Public Interest? Keynote Address PART II: THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION'S PROGRAM IN THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION JSTOR and the Economics of Scholarly Communication PART III: ECONOMIC MODELING OF INVESTMENTS IN INFORMATION RESOURCES AT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS The Economics of Information The Economics of the Internet and Academia The Economics of University Investments in Information Resources Questions and Discussion PART IV: CASE STUDIES IN TRANSFORMING THE SCHOLARLY PROCESS: COSTS AND BENEFITS OF COOPERATION Funding Social Science Data Archiving and Services in the Networked Environment Building the Distributed North American Collection for Foreign Languages Questions and Discussion PART V: ALTERNATIVES TO CURRENT ACCESS MODELS IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES The Economics of Resource Sharing, Consortia, and Document Delivery The Economics of Access versus Ownership: The Costs and Benefits of Access to Scholarly Articles via Interlibrary Loan and Journal Subscriptions Questions and Discussion PART VI: CAN E-JOURNALS SAVE US? Can E-Journals Save Us?: A Publisher's View Can E-Journals Save Us?: A Scholar's View Questions and Discussion PART VII: ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES Economic Considerations for Digital Libraries: A Library of Congress Perspective Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information Value-Chain This Little User Went to Market, This Little User Stayed Home: What Users, Potential Users, and Nonusers Can Tell Us Questions and Discussion PART VIII: THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION ACCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Measuring Costs and Benefits of Distance Learning PART IX: THE LIMITS OF MARKETPLACE SOLUTIONS AND THE NEED FOR COLLABORATION The Need for Collaboration to Build the Knowledge Infrastructure PART X: THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION AND THE NEED FOR COLLABORATION--CREATING A RESEARCH AGENDA Panel APPENDIX Conference Sponsors Conference Advisory Committee List of Participants


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  • ISBN-13: 9780789006592
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Haworth Press Inc
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 338
  • ISBN-10: 0789006596
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jan 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 338
  • Returnable: N


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