Tradegy of the Commons revisited: librarians, publishers, faculty and the demise of a public resource.
The model of scholarly publishing can be reduced, in economic terms, to a Tragedy of the Commons, whereby the individual interests of publishers, libraries and scholars are in conflict with what is in the best interest of the public good. Serials inflation, price discrimination, and site-license pri...
| Publicado en: | Portal: Libraries & the Academy Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 547 - 563 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Oct2003
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