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Reports on a study initiated by the British Library to predict the size of the electronic publishing industry by the year 2003, focusing especially on scholarly material. Many libraries are eyeing electronic publishing as an escape from the squeeze between shrinking budgets and growing academic publ
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Library Journal Review
The most daring speculation in this analysis of the future of electronic publishing is that we are entering what scholarly information consultant Brown calls a "valley of death" for printed scholarly journals. If so, it will be a swift turnabout from the long history of growth, where the number of journal titles extant had doubled every 15 years for two centuries. However, prices have been rising far in excess of inflation while subscription rates have declined, so that the coming decade may see the breaking point when subscription numbers fall to where most printed scholarly journals are no longer financially viable. Managing the move from print to online journal access is the subject of serious discussion by librarians and other scholars (Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing, Professional Reading, LJ 12/95). Brown's study, commissioned by the British Library's Corporate Research Group, examines a vast amount of publishing and economic information. Unfortunately, the graphics in which the data are summarized are often unreadable due to poor print quality, indistinguishable shadings on graphs, and nonexistent labeling. The sources for many figures are not indicated. Print may be dead, but the information here is not as well organized, displayed, or documented as it must be to present a convincing argument. Not recommended.Margaret Sylvia, St. Mary's Univ. Academic Lib., San Antonio (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
