The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment

Herausgeber: Butler, Meredith A.; Kingma, Bruce R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, first published in 1998, world-renowned experts on the subject of contemporary librarianship analyse the problems associated with coping with an ever-expanding knowledge base, given their current economic constraints and budgets. It examines challenging marketplace solutions to problems in the economics of information; economic modelling of investments in information resources at academic institutions; the economics of resource sharing, consortia, and document delivery; and measuring the costs and benefits of distance learning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780367425173
• ISBN-10: 0367425173
• Artikelnr.: 62573889

Autorenporträt

Meredith A. Butler, Bruce R. Kingma

Inhaltsangabe

1. Information Technology and the Transformation of the University David P.
Roselle 2. Costs and Benefits of Investments in Technology: How Can
Technology Serve the Public Interest? Mario Morino 3. JSTOR and the
Economics of Scholarly Communication William G. Bowen 4. The Economics of
Information Roger Noll 5. The Economics of the Internet and Academia Hal
Varian 6. The Economics of University Investments in Information Resources
Michael McPherson 7. Funding Social Science Data Archiving and Services in
the Networked Environment Richard C. Rockwell 8. Building the Distributed
North American Collection for Foreign Languages Burkart Holzner 9. The
Economics of Resource Sharing, Consortia, and Document Delivery Meredith A.
Butler 10. The Economics of Access versus Ownership: The Costs and Benefits
of Access to Scholarly Articles via Interlibrary Loan and Journal
Subscriptions Bruce R. Kingma 11. Can E-Journals Save Us?: A Publisher's
View Lorrin R. Garson 12. Can E-Journals Save Us?: A Scholar's View James
O'Donnell 13. Economic Considerations for Digital Libraries: A Library of
Congress Perspective Hiram L. Davis 14. Cost Centers and Measures in the
Networked Information Value-Chain Paul Evan Peters 15. This Little User
Went to Market, This Little User Stayed Home: What Users, Potential Users,
and Nonusers Can Tell Us Ann P. Bishop 16. Measuring Costs and Benefits of
Distance Learning James H. Ryan 17. The Need for Collaboration to Build the
Knowledge Infrastructure Richard P. West