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Libraries and the future of scholarly communication

Changes in the structure of commercial scholarly publishing have led to spiraling subscription prices. This has resulted in a "serials crisis" that has eroded library budgets and threatened the system of scientific communication. Open access represents one possible solution, and librarians...

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Autor principal: Sperr, Edwin V
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1647289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17090309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-4598-5-58
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spelling pubmed-16472892006-11-18 Libraries and the future of scholarly communication Sperr, Edwin V Mol Cancer Commentary Changes in the structure of commercial scholarly publishing have led to spiraling subscription prices. This has resulted in a "serials crisis" that has eroded library budgets and threatened the system of scientific communication. Open access represents one possible solution, and librarians are working to help make it a reality. BioMed Central 2006-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC1647289/ /pubmed/17090309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-4598-5-58 Text en Copyright © 2006 Sperr; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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