Ken Frazier Paper in D-Lib Magazine

[Sloan, Bernie]

> I'd like to call your attention to a very interesting paper by Ken Frazier
> (The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal" ) in
> the March issue of D-Lib Magazine:
> 
> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/frazier/03frazier.html
> 
> The paper discusses the "Big Deal", which Ken Frazier describes as "an
> online aggregation of journals that publishers offer as a one-price, one
> size fits all package." Ken Frazier's advice??  "Academic library
> directors should not sign on to the Big Deal or any comprehensive
> licensing agreements with commercial publishers."
> 
> A very provocative piece......
> 
> Thanks to Alison Buckholtz of ARL for pointing out this paper on the
> liblicense-l list!
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
> University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
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>