ERIC Number: EJ613379
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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If Information Wants To Be Free...Then Who's Going To Pay for It? [and] A Question of Access: SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing [and] Who Is Going To Mine Digital Library Resources? And How?
Kaser, Richard T.; Johnson, Richard K.; Rudner, Lawrence
D-Lib Magazine, v6 n5 May 2000
Discusses Fair Use and the public perception; models for funding information services; publishers illusion that information is/should be free; Internet's role in making information freely available; scholarly communication systems: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and BioOne (an electronic aggregation of bioscience journals); need for trained reference professionals to teach internet search skills. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Costs, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing, Fair Use (Copyrights), Fees, Information Industry, Information Scientists, Information Services, Information Sources, Internet, Ownership, Publishing Industry, Scholarly Writing, Search Strategies
Available electronically: http://www.dlib.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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