Re: One library or many?

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

It would probably be unwise for content only to be stored in one place
(whether this is the publisher, a deposit library or wherever) - more than
one, using different technological approaches, makes sense as
future-proofing/insurance.  However, it's quite true that libraries don't
all need to store e-content (and, indeed, they generally don't - this is a
major source of savings, as identified in Schonfield et al's recent
article).

For material that is not in the public domain, however, libraries do need
to obtain (and, where applicable, pay for) usage rights for their patrons,
irrespective of where the content is stored.

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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