The Past, Present, and Future of Demand Driven Acquisitions in Academic Libraries
« The challenge of creating an effective and appropriate library collection has been further tested by the recent advent of what Clayton Christensen has termed ...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Toward Improved Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Cross-Sector Collaboration Essentials
« By way of follow-up to earlier work in understanding and improving discoverability of scholarly content, this article reports on recent data and reflections t...
Factors affecting the adoption of e-books by information professionals
« One of the innovations that information technology has presented within information organizations is the phenomenon of e-books. This study seeks to explore in...
Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005-2012: Past growth, current characteristics and future possibilities
« This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, December 2005 to December 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. It sho...
Free-riding, cooperation, and ‘peaceful revolutions’ in copyright
Modern copyright law is based on the inescapable assumption that users, given the choice, will free-ride rather than pay for access. In fact, many consumers of ...