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Repo, Aatto J. – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Develops a framework for analyzing the value of information, information products, and services from the viewpoint of information use, and analyzes the practical values of different types of information to study the problems involved in assessing their value-in-use and exchange value. Existing research studies are analyzed using this approach.…
Descriptors: Classification, Economics, Fees, Information Science
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Freides, Thelma – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Examines three key federal information issues from an economic perspective: what information the government should make available to the public; whether government information should be disseminated via governmental or private means; and whether costs of transmission should be borne by the public at large or by the information user. (CDD)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Depository Libraries
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Veaner, Allen B. – College and Research Libraries, 1985
Explores the implications of changes to be expected within foreseeable future (1985-95) in environment, mission, functions, and operations of academic libraries for librarians and librarianship. Context of academic librarianship, governance, faculty status, the library's information economy, marketing information to end user, and possible futures…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Fees, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
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Rochell, Carlton – College and Research Libraries, 1985
Explores issues associated with the imposition of fees on information obtained from sources made available by today's technology. Highlights include the commodification of information, economics of access to information, library costs and user fees, cost benefits of automation, financial support for automation, and implications for collection…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Fees, Financial Support, Futures (of Society)
Fine, Paul L. – 1994
This paper examines the applicability of net tuition revenue models for a highly selective, elite priced, private research university in the southern U.S. Pricing and aid strategies for this university seem to be driven by intuitive assumptions about the economy, market forces, needs-blind admissions, student satisfaction, net price…
Descriptors: College Programs, Fees, Higher Education, Income
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Yamamoto, Rumi – Canadian Library Journal, 1986
Discusses the problems of assimilating electronic publishing within the technical services area of academic libraries: whether to consider electronic journals as acquisitions; how to catalog them; whether to charge users for access to them; and how to preserve online publications for future research. Future trends in electronic publishing are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Computer Output Microfilm, Electronic Journals