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Author Scott-Reed, Jutta

Title Scholarship Research Libraries and Global Publishing
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages)
Contents 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
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
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
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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1136387129