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RE: Interlibrary loan and elect
One way to consider solving the journal economics and inter-library loan problem in an electronic environment is for libraies to take on a larger role in the process - namely becoming a publisher of the peer-reviewed scholarly works from their organizations. This way they take the money they spend for journal subscriptions and related expenses and use it to create their own eletronic library. Such library operations would certainly publish "anything" of high quality - popular or not. In my opinion there are too many discussions on incremntal changes, with no one talking of starting from scratch - state the problem and the user requirments - assess the technology - and propose a solution that solves the problem. Print publishers don't have a guaranteed right to exist - just as manufactuers of buggy whips didn't at the turn of this century. Steve Heller, USDA, ARS, Plant Genome Project Bldg. 005, Room 337 Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 USA Phone: 301-504-6055 FAX: 301-504-6231 E-mail: srheller@gig.usda.gov WWW: www.hellers.com/~steve
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