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Digital Library Economics, 1st Edition

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Digital Library Economics, 1st Edition,David Baker,Wendy Evans,ISBN9781843344032
 
 
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  • Incorporates past developments, current good practice and future trends
  • Written by recognized national and international authorities
  • There is little else in the field: it fills a major gap in the literature

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Digital Library Economics covers key aspects of the management and development of the digital library from an economic viewpoint. The work is a collection of essays by leading international authorities and provides an overview of current and future positions with regard to the economics of digital library management and development. Key contextual aspects are described, providing a history of the growth of digital libraries, with special reference to financial issues, current and possible future economic models and costing methodologies and challenges, themes and issues in the field.

David Baker

Professor David Baker is Principal of University of St Mark & St John. He has published widely in the field of Library and Information Studies, with fourteen monographs and some 100 articles to his credit. He has spoken at numerous conferences, led workshops and seminars and has undertaken consultancy work in most countries in the European Union, along with work in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Nigeria and the Sudan.

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Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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Wendy Evans

Wendy Evans is Head of Library at UCP Marjon. She has a keen interest in the Internet and electronic resources and, in particular, access to journals and databases. Wendy also has an expertise in data protection and freedom of information. She has published, lectured and researched electronic journal and database usage and access versus ownership of journals. Wendy has recently been awarded an Associate Teaching Fellowship at UCP Marjon.

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University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, UK

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Digital Library Economics, 1st Edition

Digital library economics: The environment; Digital library economics: the key themes; A history of digital library economics; Digital library economics: Aspects and prospects; Journal publishing: implications for a digital library policy; Hybrid library management; Digital library economics: International perspectives 1 The Australian perspective; Digital library economics: International perspectives 2 The German perspective; Digital library economics: International perspectives 3 The Dutch perspective; E-journals and e-books; Digitisation - trends in the economics of retro-conversion; To be or not to be: Prospects for document supply in the digital library; Cost-effective decision-making in collection building; Spinning the disks - lessons from the circus; The CREE project: A case study on the novel delivery of search-related library services and its economic implications; The economics of copyright; The economic future for digital libraries: A 2020 vision.

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This book will provide the reader with a good idea of the context of digital library provision and of the main issues that need to be explored., Information Research
 
 
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