Following 2008, a lot of public and
academic library saw budget cuts, further exacerbating the decline of ebook purchases.
Not exact matches
While Gale is predominantly an
academic content provider, it will be interesting to
see if publishers and
libraries are willing to adopt an unheard of model for typical
library content by basing compensation on how much is actually accessed.
I'll
see your 3,891 posts and raise you a
library's worth of
academic papers, articles, books, stories, poems, songs and plays.
Nothing to
see here folks... unless institutional law
libraries (government ministries, courts,
academic law
libraries) are not supported.
There is, however, another tool called Perma.cc that's open widely to all courts, law faculties, journals and
academic libraries (
see here for a list of partners).
The case law seems to suggest that, rather than deciding public access policies based solely on considerations of the public or private nature of their universities, the amount of public funding received, or their
library's depository status, librarians can consider the individual characteristics of their own universities — the university's mission, their patrons» needs, their financial circumstances, and the place they
see for their
academic library in the larger community.