Technology poses problems for journals

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Published Friday, November 21, 2003
Yale Daily News
Technology poses problems for journals
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=24250
BY ERICA YOUNGSTROM
Staff Reporter
...

Members of the Advisory Council on Library Policy, or ACLP, and other 
faculty say subscribing to online journals -- which provides a 
convenient way to retrieve current academic research -- is becoming 
more expensive, even though many anticipated a cost reduction once the 
publications went online.

Associate University Librarian Ann Okerson said the University's 
journal subscription costs, particularly in the areas of science and 
technology, rise about nine percent annually -- a pace that library 
budget increases cannot match.

"Ten years ago -- everyone believed that electronic [journals] would be 
really cheap," Okerson said. "I think there's a fair amount of 
disillusionment or disappointment that moving to electronic has not 
brought down costs or prices."

See link for rest of article.