Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Interaction of libraries and publishers

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dc.contributor Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.
dc.creator Kochen, Manfred
dc.date 2006-04-07T18:12:17Z
dc.date 2006-04-07T18:12:17Z
dc.date 1981
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-19T13:30:38Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-19T13:30:38Z
dc.identifier Kochen, Manfred (1981)."Interaction of libraries and publishers." Information Processing & Management 17(5): 291-299. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/24542>
dc.identifier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VC8-468H96T-7W/2/3f989a19631ec8e9acffa63a409b91c7
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/24542
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(81)90022-4
dc.identifier Information Processing & Management
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/117377
dc.description Libraries and publishers have evolved together. Publishers rely on libraries as a minimum market for their scholarly products. Inflationary pressures have caused publishers to increase prices that, in turn, strain library budgets that have not increased as fast, and which, in turn, undermine the minimal demand publishers can count on, adding to inflationary pressure.A simple mathematical model for the dynamics of the interaction between libraries and publishers is analyzed. It derives a function for the supply curve of scholarly publications, and is used to estimate when an institution will have to spend as much per person on library support as on his or her salary if present trends continue. This is used to argue that present trends are unlikely to continue, but that a discontinuous shift in the production of scholarly output is likely to occur within a decade or two. Likely new forms of communication among scholars in "communicating classes" involving nearly simultaneous communication and a new kind of organized cumulative record are discussed. The implication for institutional changes not only in libraries and publishers and their interrelation but of new kinds of institutions are sketched.
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights IndexNoFollow
dc.subject Information and Library Science
dc.subject Computer Science
dc.subject Humanities
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject Engineering
dc.title Interaction of libraries and publishers
dc.type Article


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