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<BODY style="FONT: 10pt Segoe UI; MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px">A feisty, straight-talking assessment of the choices facing academic libraries. I keep coming across statements from other libraries that are taking the hard road of cutting bundles. <BR><BR>>>> "Eric F. Van de Velde" <eric.f.vandevelde@gmail.com> 2013/10/10 07:10 PM >>><BR>
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<DIV>Green Open Access as a survival strategy for libraries:</DIV>
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<P align=left>The academic library has, by default, tied its destiny to a service with no realistic prospects of long-term survival. It has become a systems integrator that stitches together outsourced components into a digital recreation of a paper-based library. This horseless carriage provides the same commodity service to an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, a graduate student in economics, and a professor of literature. Because it overwhelms the library's budget, organizational structure, and decision-making processes, this expensive and inefficient service hampers innovation in areas that are the library's best hope for survival.</P>
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<DIV>Twitter: @evdvelde<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>E-mail: <A href="mailto:eric.f.vandevelde@gmail.com" target=_blank>eric.f.vandevelde@gmail.com</A><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>