Information Pricing.

Spigai, Fran

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ERIC Number: EJ441683

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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Information Pricing.

Spigai, Fran

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v26 p39-73 1991

Reviews the events and the literature of 1986-90 concerned with the pricing of research and professional materials for libraries. Serials are discussed, including pricing studies and price indexes, publisher's views, and the need for a new paradigm of scholarly publishing; monographs are considered; and electronic publishing is addressed, including CD-ROMs. (123 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Cost Indexes, Electronic Publishing, Librarian Attitudes, Library Collection Development, Library Expenditures, Library Materials, Literature Reviews, Monographs, Online Vendors, Optical Data Disks, Publishing Industry, Scholarly Writing, Serials

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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