New Issue Brief From Ithaka S+R: “Red Light, Green Light Aligning the Library to Support Licensing”
Here’s a new issue brief written by Roger Schonfeld, Director, Libraries and Scholarly Communication Program, at Ithaka S+R.
Title
Red Light, Green Light: Aligning the Library to Support Licensing
Source
Ithaka S+R
The Report Begins:
There is widespread frustration within the academic library community with the seemingly uncontrollable price increases of e-resources, especially of licensed bundles of scholarly journals. The scholarly communications movement has vastly expanded academic and indeed public access to scholarly content. Yet prices for certain scholarly resources continue to outpace budget increases, and librarians do not feel in control of budgets and pricing. What if libraries found ways to bring together the whole library behind the objective of stabilizing or reducing what they pay?
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.