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Analysis and Proposals Concerning Big Deals of Scholarly Journals

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2007, 41(1), pp.373-389
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Shin, Eun-Ja 1

1세종대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The most remarkable business model to have merged in electronic publishing is the so-called ‘Big Deal’. Major publishers have begun offering libraries bundled packages that are across journals and across print and electronic versions. This paper examined consortium conditions of scholarly journals in the light of big deal. The result showed that various pricing models have been appeared and freedoms to choose collections have been on the increase in comparison with the past. But many major publishers have adopted a typical big deal contract condition that a library enters into a long-term arrangement to get access to large electronic journal collections at a dramatic discount interchange of a promise not to cut print subscriptions. The publishing and library communities need to find alternative pricing models that provide better deals for those disadvantaged by the prevalence of the big deal. Much in the world of scholarly publication is changing, combination of traditional publishing and open access publishing may well be gained public favor in the future.

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