<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Librarians internalized the idea of ‘core journals’, and, basing themselves on rankings
derived from SCI, they all began to subscribe to the same titles, thus unwittingly creating
an inelastic market for these journals (Guédon, 2001). <b><font color="#ff0000">Business people like Robert
Maxwell quickly grasped the commercial opportunities and began to raise subscription
prices: the ‘serial pricing crisis’ was born.</font></b></span></div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://csi.sagepub.com/content/62/5/647.full.pdf+html">http://csi.sagepub.com/content/62/5/647.full.pdf+html</a></div>