Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1-19-2004
Abstract
Libraries and the scholarly community share a dream of creating a world where scholarly articles are easily available on the Internet to everyone who wants them, without any fees, restrictions or barriers of any kind. What is preventing us from fulfilling such a noble and worthy goal? This paper examines selected case studies that show how libraries and scholars are coping with the science journal crisis. By highlighting responses that are innovative and proactive, this paper hopes to contribute to a general awareness of responses that have the potential for transforming the current scholarly communication process into an open, unimpeded, author-controlled electronic-journal based scholarly communication process.
Comments
Published in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. Winter 2004. http://www.istl.org/04-winter/article4.html (January 3, 2005). Used by permission.