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Author Crawford, Walt

Title Big-deal serial purchasing : tracking the damage / Walt Crawford
Published Chicago, IL : ALA TechSource, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (50 pages) : illustrations
Series Library technology reports, 0024-2586 ; volume 50, number 4
Library technology reports ; v. 50, no. 4.
Contents Tracking the damage -- Libraries by size -- Libraries by sector and two-year colleges -- Universities and four-year colleges in general -- Specialized institutions -- What can be done?
Summary "Abstract: When serials publishers first offered Big Deals to academic libraries, they seemed to many to be win-win situations. But while Big Deals did appear to lower the rate of serials price inflation, they did not bring it down to manageable levels--and in the process, they limited academic library flexibility. This issue ... describes a study that looks at the apparent damage caused by Big Deals over the period from 2002 (when most had been introduced) to 2012, specifically looking at details of acquisitions money for books and other acquisitions by type and size of library. Some possible approaches to improving the situation appear in the final chapter."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Acquisition of serial publications -- United States -- Costs
Acquisition of serial publications -- United States -- Cost effectiveness
Acquisition of serial publications -- United States -- Costs -- Evaluation
Acquisition of serial publications -- Economic aspects -- United States
Acquisition of serial publications -- United States -- Decision making
Serials subscription agencies -- United States -- Evaluation
Serials subscription agencies -- United States -- Cost control
Acquisitions (Libraries) -- United States -- Finance
Library finance -- United States -- Cost control
Serials librarianship -- United States
Serial publications.
serials (publications)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Acquisition of serial publications -- Cost effectiveness
Acquisition of serial publications -- Costs
Acquisition of serial publications -- Economic aspects
Serial publications
Serials librarianship
Serials subscription agencies -- Evaluation
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780838959275
083895927X