FREE INTERNET ACCESS TO TRADITIONAL JOURNALS

[Shirl Kennedy]

Forwarded to me by a friend with whom I've had several beer-soaked
conversations about this very issue.

Shirl Kennedy
Internet Waves columnist
Information Today
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0838907121/002-3206652-8002207


>>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:38:35 -0400 (EDT)
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>>From: Lucy Rowland <lrowland at arches.uga.edu>
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>>Please disseminate as much as possible to other science librarians:
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>>I received my copy of American Scientist (journal published by Sigma Xi,
>>honorary scientific research society of North America) yesterday. There is
>>an important article by Thomas J. Walker, an entomologist at University of
>>Florida, entitled FREE INTERNET ACCESS TO TRADITIONAL JOURNALS (Sept/Oct
>>1998, pp.463-471). This article is also available over the World Wide Web:
>>www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/amsci.html. Click on "Web Publishing: Who Pays?" to
>>view the article which appears in several full-text sections.
>>
>>Those of us who manage large (in excess of $2 million) science periodicals
>>budgets, particularly in ARL libraries, have seen a paradigm shift to
>>all-electronic coming. This is a well-written perspective coming from a
>>scientist, publishing for scientists.
>>
>>
>>Lucy M. Rowland, MS, MLS                        "Human subtlety will never
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>>LROWLAND at ARCHES.UGA.EDU                            --Leonardo Da Vinci
>>http://www.libs.uga.edu/science/science.html
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