[Irtalk] How much is your university paying for journal access?

[Hilton Gibson]

Almost twenty years later, the Big Deal turned out not to be that much of a
bargain. The Big Deal is like a single all-you-can eat subscription for a
set fee, however libraries soon learned that there are many downsides to
consuming academia in a bundle. *Most libraries would spend a great deal of
their budgets on the Big Deal, then would find themselves lacking funds for
other important purchases* like buying monographs, which had an impact on
scientists and other researchers alike, a situation exacerbated by the fact
that the proportion of research university funding allocated to libraries
has been falling over time.

http://www.zmescience.com/research/how-much-for-journal-subscription-universities-pay-543564


*​Another vicious cycle of dependence, which if broken, could easily fund
self-hosted open access scholarly communication platforms in academic
libraries.*

*See: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Value_Proposition
<http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Value_Proposition>*
*And: **http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Repository_Information#Journals
<http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Repository_Information#Journals>*
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