Towards the reforming of scholarly communication system : Efforts by Japan Association of National University Libraries

In recent years academic libraries have set up consortia to purchase e-journals. While the number of accessible e-journal titles has dramatically increased by a comprehensive agreement called Big Deal, some serious issues have become visible. In this article the actual situations of price increase o...

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Published inJournal of Information Processing and Management Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 3 - 11
Main Authors OJIRO, Koichi, HOSHINO, Masahide
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Japanese
Published Japan Science and Technology Agency 2010
Subjects
academic library
big deal
consortium
electronic journal
Japanese Association of National University Libraries
open access
price increase issue of scholarly journal
scholarly communication system
scholarly journal
serials crisis
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Summary:In recent years academic libraries have set up consortia to purchase e-journals. While the number of accessible e-journal titles has dramatically increased by a comprehensive agreement called Big Deal, some serious issues have become visible. In this article the actual situations of price increase of scholarly journals and serials crisis caused by it are outlined. Next the results and limitations of e-journal consortial activities are discussed. Finally the efforts by Japanese Association of National University Libraries in order to reform the current scholarly communication system controlled by some commercial publishers mentioned are mentioned.
ISSN:0021-7298
1347-1597
DOI:10.1241/johokanri.53.3