Pricing Strategies and Models for the Provision of Digitized Texts in Higher Education.

Hardy, Rachel; Oppenheim, Charles; Rubbert, Iris

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ERIC Number: EJ654093

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2002

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Pricing Strategies and Models for the Provision of Digitized Texts in Higher Education.

Hardy, Rachel; Oppenheim, Charles; Rubbert, Iris

Journal of Information Science, v28 n2 p97-110 2002

Describes research into charging mechanisms for the delivery of digitized texts to higher education students in the United Kingdom and discusses the need for a satisfactory pricing model. Explains the HERON (Higher Education Resources On-Demand) and PELICAN (Pricing Experiment Library Information Cooperative Network) projects and considers economic issues for stakeholders. (Contains 52 references.) (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Document Delivery, Economic Factors, Electronic Text, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Models, Stakeholders

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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