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Digital Library Selection: Maximum Access, Not Buying the Best Titles: Libraries Should Become Full-Text Amazon.coms's.

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Ferguson, Anthony W. – Journal of Library Administration, 2000

Discusses new ways of selecting information for digital libraries. Topics include increasing the quantity of information acquired versus item by item selection that is more costly than the value it adds; library-publisher relationships; netLibrary; electronic journals; and the SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cost Effectiveness, Electronic Journals

Document Delivery in the Electronic Age: Collecting and Service Implications.

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Ferguson, Anthony W. – Journal of Library Administration, 1996

Examines the role of commercial document delivery. Discusses interlibrary loan (ILL); access versus ownership decision making; degree of use and patron use of commercial document delivery; and use of library materials funds. Concludes that document delivery will not totally replace ownership or ILL, but that it is becoming more important because…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Document Delivery, Futures (of Society)