Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals
News item in The New York Times, 18 September 2011: LONDON After decades of healthy profits, the scholarly publishing industry now finds itself in the throes of a revolt led by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries: the librarians. Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their expensive subscriptions, turning instead to open access publishing, an arrangement whereby material is made available free on the Internet with few or no restrictions except for the obligation to cite it.... Read complete news item at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/world/europe/19iht-educLede19.html?_r=1 ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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