TY - JOUR
T1 - Competition and cooperation
T2 - Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals
AU - Odlyzko, Andrew
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The conversion of scholarly journals to digital format is proceeding rapidly, especially those of large commercial and learned society publishers. This conversion offers the best hope for survival for such publishers. The infamous 'journal crisis' is more of a library cost crisis than a publisher pricing problem, with internal library costs much higher than the amount spent on purchasing books and journals. Therefore publishers may be able to retain or even increase their revenues and profits while providing superior service. Todo this, they will have to take over many of the functions of libraries, and they can do that only in the digital domain. This paper examines publishers' strategies, how they are likely to evolve, and how they will affect libraries.
AB - The conversion of scholarly journals to digital format is proceeding rapidly, especially those of large commercial and learned society publishers. This conversion offers the best hope for survival for such publishers. The infamous 'journal crisis' is more of a library cost crisis than a publisher pricing problem, with internal library costs much higher than the amount spent on purchasing books and journals. Therefore publishers may be able to retain or even increase their revenues and profits while providing superior service. Todo this, they will have to take over many of the functions of libraries, and they can do that only in the digital domain. This paper examines publishers' strategies, how they are likely to evolve, and how they will affect libraries.
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U2 - 10.3138/jsp-030-04-163
DO - 10.3138/jsp-030-04-163
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33749823618
SN - 1198-9742
VL - 30
SP - 181
EP - 185
JO - Journal of Scholarly Publishing
JF - Journal of Scholarly Publishing
IS - 4
ER -