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Environmental
Scan of Pricing Models for Online Content
Prepared by Albert W. Darimont
OnDisC Project
November 2001
©OnDisC Alliance 2001
1.
Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. E-Business
Models
4. E-resources
in Today's Academic Libraries
5. Library E-business
6. E-journals
7. Subject
Based Gateways
8. Content
Aggregators
9. Non-profit,
subsidized
10. Content
Providers
11. Conclusion
12. References
Library E-business
There has been much literature in the past ten
years from librarians contemplating the migration
of library materials into the digital realm.
There are a number of reasons for doing this
including: reducing the costs of journals, taking
advantage of the broad and rapid distribution
of digital resources made possible by the internet,
providing efficient archival storage of older
materials.
Librarians have traditionally been
“early-adopters' of technology and have been
“online” for several decades providing research
services for clients using Lexus-Nexus, Dialog
and other early online bibliographic tools.
True to their form, librarians are continuing
to assess and adopt technology to improve the
service they offer to their clients. In their
report, Economic Models of the Digital Library[8],
Halliday and Oppenheim explore several different
digital library models including electronic
journal production and delivery, a resource
discovery network (Subject Based Gateway) and
a national electronic reserve service. The authors’
examination of the models include consideration
of all stakeholders in the academic information
chain, their relationships to the supply and
delivery of digital resources and the associated
costs and benefits.
The most important stakeholders are identified
as:
· academics as
authors and users of scholarly information,
· academics as
teachers,
· academic librarians,
· publishers
and information brokers (including subscription
agents and document supply agencies).
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