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1 online resource (191 pages) |
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Scholarship, Research Libraries, and Global Publishing; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Preface; Executive Summary; Part I: Trends in Foreign Acquisitions; Chapter 1: Research Libraries in a Global Context; Summary of Findings; Responses and Collaborative Strategies; Chapter 2: Project Overview; Project Goals; Project Scope; Project Activities: July 1991-July 1995; Part II: Framing the Problem; Chapter 3: Shifts in Area and International Studies and Information Needs; Chapter 4: Growth in Global Publishing; Europe; East Asia |
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Latin AmericaMiddle East; Africa; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Changes in Subject Fields; Chapter 5: Economics of International Research Resources; Increases in the Cost of Materials; Fluctuations of the Dollar; Decline of Funding Support; Part III: The Landscape of Area Studies and Foreign Language Collections; Chapter 6: Collecting Patterns of North American Research Libraries; Growth Patterns; Distribution Patterns; Changes in Subject Scope; Diversity in Formats; Implications; Chapter 7: Survey of Area Studies Collections; Africa; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Latin America |
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Middle EastIsrael; Russia and Eastern Europe; Western Europe; List of Completed Area Reports; Model Outline for Country Studies; Part IV: Cooperative Action; Chapter 8: Cooperative Collection Development Programs; National Efforts; The Library of Congress; The Center for Research Libraries (CRL); Survey on Regional and Local Cooperative Collection Development Programs in Global Resources; Part V: New Models for Resource Sharing; Chapter 9: AAU/ARL Initiatives in Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials; AAU/ARL Global Resources Pilot Projects; The Challenges of Network Collections |
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Toward a Global Resources ProgramChapter 10: A Look at the Future; Appendix; Strategic Plan for Improving Access to Global Information Resources in U.S. and Canadian Research Libraries; Preamble; Vision; Goals, Objectives, and Strategies; References |
Summary |
Discover how to meet the challenges of increasing your library's international publications through digital networks and large shared resource networks with other research libraries!Scholarship, Research Libraries, and Global Publishing reveals a four-year study conducted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that shows a tremendous decrease in US and Canadian ARL libraries'international publication acquisitions in a time when North American universities are becoming increasingly global and need to maintain collections of foreign articles. This intense study reflects these t |
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781136387128 |
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1136387129 |
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