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Scholarly Communication and Libraries
Trends in scholarly communication that have had particular impact on libraries include: rising journal costs, a sharp rise in new specialized and cross-disciplinary academic journals, an increasing demand from users for electronic access to information, and constraints on the publishing of scholarly monographs by university presses. Recognizing that these issues are not library issues alone, university presidents, provosts, faculty, librarians, counsels, and representatives of scholarly societies and university presses have made recommendations for the future of scholarly communication.
The sites below include reports from these groups and other related sites.
New Horizons in Scholarly Communication
The New Horizons site highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level.
Issues in Scholarly Communication
The Association of Research Libraries offers helpful resources on scholarly communication.
The Create Change site provides an overview of the crisis in scholarly communication and offers strategies for changing the situation.
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Last updated June 12, 2003
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