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Re: post-ILL
Jim O"Donnell take us a bit futher into the world of "what if". How about thinking a bit futher, when we have "pricing on the fly". Why not information futures just like pork bellies. Why have once a year pricing from publishers, but pricing which changes as the dollar fluctuates, (less risk for everyone) or the cost of an article by a new Nobel prize winner doubles. How about bargin basement articles by new faculty who have not established reputations, or in fields like cold fusion. Elsevier might have year end sales, dropping the cost of articles to catch our year end funds which normally would be spent on big ticket items which we probably don't need. Vandy only spends 34% of our total library budget on information. The rest goes to infrastucture. The electronic world way allow is to reduce the cost of the infrastructure and shift more into dollars spent on actual information. More information for us, and more money for the publishers. The publishers need to wake up and understand they need to help us create this new world, not stand in its way. And yes, we might run out of articles mid-year, but are we not running out now, as we cancel more and more journal titles and buy fewer and fewer monographs. It's just a different form of running out. Paul M. Gherman University Librarian 611B General Library 419 21st Avenue South Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37240 Office: (615) 322-7120 Fax: (615) 343-8279 gherman@library.vanderbilt.edu
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