The State of the Large Publisher Bundle: Findings from an ARL Member Survey
| Title: | The State of the Large Publisher Bundle: Findings from an ARL Member Survey (ID: CSD4540) | | Author(s): | Karla Hahn (Association of Research Libraries (ARL)) | | Topics: | Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing, Libraries and Technology, Library Budgets, Scholarly Communication | | Origin: | Community Contributions (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The bundling of scholarly journals and the marketing practices of the largest commercial publishers are a source of concern within the library community for a variety of reasons. These publishers receive substantial proportions of research libraries' overall spending on serials and they are often seen as trendsetters by smaller publishers. One of the earliest and most public expressions of concern about journal bundling was made in 2001 by Kenneth Frazier, the Director of Libraries at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As Frazier noted, a key feature of journal bundling is strict limits on a library's ability to cancel titles. This restriction of cancellations creates challenges for budget management, for collection management, and for the marketplace of scholarly journals. As library budgets are locked into large bundles, cancellation pressure on unbundled titles increases and funds to acquire new journals outside of bundles are squeezed out. | | View this resource: | |
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