[Open-access] Where the Puck won't be

Thu Oct 10 17:10:53 UTC 2013

Green Open Access as a survival strategy for libraries:

The academic library has, by default, tied its destiny to a service with no
realistic prospects of long-term survival. It has become a systems
integrator that stitches together outsourced components into a digital
recreation of a paper-based library. This horseless carriage provides the
same commodity service to an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, a
graduate student in economics, and a professor of literature. Because it
overwhelms the library's budget, organizational structure, and
decision-making processes, this expensive and inefficient service hampers
innovation in areas that are the library's best hope for survival.

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http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/10/where-puck-wont-be.html

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