Technology and scholarly communication / edited by Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt. - Berkeley, Calif. : [Pittsburgh?] : University of California Press ; Published in association with the Andrew K. Mellon Foundation, �1999. - 1 online resource (xi, 442 pages)

Papers presented at a conference held April 1997 at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-427) and index.

Electronic publishing, digital libraries, and the scholarly environment / Digital image quality : from conversion to presentation and beyond / The transition to electronic content licensing : the institutional context in 1997 / Comparing electronic journals to print journals : are there savings? / Electronic publishing in academia : an economic perspective / JSTOR : the development of a cost-driven, value-based pricing model / The effect of price : early observations / Electronic publishing is cheaper / Economics of electronic publishing--cost issues : comments on part two / Richard E. Quandt and Richard Ekman. Technological fundamentals. Making technology work for scholarship : investing in the data / Susan Hockey -- Anne R. Kenney -- Ann S. Okerson. Electronic publishing : empirical studies. Information-based productivity / Scott Bennett -- Janet H. Fisher -- Malcolm Getz -- Kevin M. Guthrie -- Karen Hunter -- Willis G. Regier -- Robert Shirrell. Introduction : Analysis of JSTOR : the impact on scholarly practice of access to on-line journal archives / Patterns of use for the Bryn Mawr Reviews / The crosscurrents of technology transfer : the Czech and Slovak Library Information Network / Consortial access versus ownership / The use of electronic scholarly journals : models of analysis and data drawn from the Project MUSE experience at Johns Hopkins University / A new consortial model for building digital libraries / On-line books at Columbia : early findings on use, satisfaction, and effect / The library and the university press : two views of costs and problems in scholarly publishing / Technical standards and medieval manuscripts / Digital libraries : a unifying or distributing force? / Digital documents and the future of the academic community / The economics of electronic journals / Cost and value in electronic publishing / The future of electronic journals / Thomas A. Finholt and JoAnn Brooks -- Richard Hamilton -- Andrew Lass -- Richard W. Meyer -- James G. Neal -- Raymond K. Neff -- Mary Summerfield and Carol A . Mandel -- Susan Rosenblatt and Sandra Whisler. Visions of the future. Licensing, copyright, and fair use : the Thesauron Project (toward an ASCAP for academics) / Jane Ginsburg -- Eric Hollas -- Michael Lesk -- Peter Lyman -- Andrew Odlyzko -- James J. O'Donnell -- Hal R. Varian. Use of electronic journals and books : empirical studies.


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Scholarly electronic publishing--United States--Congresses.
Libraries--Special collections--Electronic information resources--United States--Congresses.
Research libraries--United States--Congresses.
DESIGN--Graphic Arts--Typography.
Libraries--Special collections--Electronic information resources.
Research libraries.
Scholarly electronic publishing.


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Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.

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