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Digital Library Economics: An academic perspective

Edited by David Baker and Wendy Evans, University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, UK

Chandos Information Professional Series

This book will provide the reader with a good idea of the context of digital library provision and of the main issues that need to be explored.
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 - incorporates past developments, current good practice and future trends
 - written by recognized national and international authorities
 - there is little else in the field: it fills a major gap in the literature
 - valuable to practitioners and tutors/students in a wide variety of situations

Digital Library Economics covers key aspects of the management and development of the digital library from an economic viewpoint. The work is a collection of essays by leading international authorities and provides an overview of current and future positions with regard to the economics of digital library management and development. Key contextual aspects are described, providing a history of the growth of digital libraries, with special reference to financial issues, current and possible future economic models and costing methodologies and challenges, themes and issues in the field.

Readership: All involved in: (1) the funding, management and development of digital libraries, including research and development; (2) digital publishing; (3) internet service and content provision, with particular reference to digitisation and digital services; and (4) internet service provision with an interest in or a responsibility for the financial aspects. Tutors and students of library and information sciences. Tutors and students of internet usage from an economic or a sociological viewpoint.

£52.50 / US$90.00 / €65.00

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About the editors

Professor David Baker is Principal of University College Plymouth St Mark & St John. He has published widely in the field of Library and Information Studies, with fourteen monographs and some 100 articles to his credit. He has spoken at numerous conferences, led workshops and seminars and has undertaken consultancy work in most countries in the European Union, along with work in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Nigeria and the Sudan. Wendy Evans is Head of Library at University College Plymouth St Mark & St John. She has published in the field of electronic journal and database usage and also access versus ownership of journals.

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Contents

Digital library economics: the environment
David Baker and Wendy Evans
 - Introduction
 - Defining the digital library
 - Hybrid approaches
 - Digital library strategies
 - Digitisation
 - Archiving and preservation
 - Repositories
 - Open access
 - Copyright
 - The potential
 - Other benefits and value added elements
 - The end user
 - Culture change
 - Conclusion
 - Note
 - References

Digital library economics: the key themes
David Baker and Wendy Evans
 - Introduction
 - The cost of digital libraries
 - Assigning cost and value in the digital library
 - Funding
 - Pricing
 - Economic models
 - Sustainability
 - Collaboration
 - Conclusion
 - Note
 - References

A history of digital library economics
Reg Carr
 - Times of ignorance …
 - Recognising the need for research
 - ‘Learning by doing’: the United States
 - ‘Learning by doing’: the United Kingdom
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Digital library economics: aspects and prospects
Derek Law
 - Introduction
 - Business plans
 - Library costs
 - The components of the digital library
 - Digital library collections
 - Digital content
 - Digital library staffing
 - User support, kitemarking and trust metrics
 - The estate
 - Administrative costs and income
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Journal publishing: implications for a digital library policy
Robert Campbell and Edward Wates
 - Introduction
 - Background
 - The rise, fall and rise in circulation
 - The costs of publishing
 - The challenge
 - Is open access the answer?
 - Savings in the scholarly communication system
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Hybrid library management
Jean Sykes
 - Introduction
 - Collection building
 - Resource allocation
 - User behaviour
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References *

Digital library economics: international perspectives: 1 The Australian perspective
Warwick Cathro
 - Introduction: definition and scope
 - Australian work on economic models
 - Digital libraries in Australia
 - Digitisation
 - Web archiving
 - University repositories
 - Collaboration and standards
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Digital library economics: international perspectives: 2 The German perspective
Rafael Ball
 - Introduction
 - Approaches to defining a digital library
 - How did it start? Digital library initiatives in Germany
 - Selected digital library projects and initiatives
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Digital library economics: international perspectives: 3 The Dutch perspective
Bas Savenije
 - Introduction: the landscape
 - A short history of innovation
 - Towards digital collections
 - Open access
 - Relationship to research and teaching
 - Organisational consequences
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

E-journals and e-books
Hazel Woodward and Fytton Rowland
 - Introduction
 - Acquisition of e-journals
 - The open access movement
 - The acquisition of e-books
 - The costs of providing access to e-journals
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Digitisation – trends in the economics of retro-conversion
Stuart Dempster and Catherine Grout
 - Introduction
 - The development of digitisation
 - Public investment
 - Private/public partnership
 - Projecting the costs: some examples
 - The budgetary black hole
 - Impact of format issues
 - Examples of costing models
 - Sustainability models
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

To be or not to be: prospects for document supply in the digital library
Mike McGrath
 - Background
 - Document supply and the hybrid library
 - Terminology and definition of document supply
 - The current environment for document supply
 - The publishers
 - Document suppliers
 - Copyright and digital rights management
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Cost-effective decision-making in collection building
Lorraine Estelle
 - Introduction
 - Strategic assessment
 - Business assessment: price and usage
 - Business assessment: financial models
 - ‘Big Deal’ or not?
 - Print versus e-books
 - Print versus e-reference
 - Licensing evaluation
 - Benefits assessments
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

Spinning the disks – lessons from the circus
John Robinson
 - Introduction
 - Spinning plates
 - Before the digital library
 - The advent of the digital library
 - Access infrastructure
 - Resource infrastructure
 - Keeping ‘safe’ copies of important material
 - Functionality, complexity, sustainability
 - Sustaining the infrastructure
 - Collective solutions for collective problems
 - Keeping the spinning disks aloft
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

The CREE project: a case study on the novel delivery of search-related library services and its economic implications
Chris Awre and CREE staff at the University of Hull
 - Introduction
 - Why CREE?
 - Models for delivering search-related resources
 - The CREE project
 - The impact of CREE
 - What does the future hold?
 - Notes
 - References

The economics of copyright
Hugh Look and Alicia Wise
 - Introduction
 - Why copyright came to exist
 - The public domain
 - How it works financially
 - Licensing
 - Issues for publishers
 - Issues for libraries
 - Looking ahead
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References

The economic future for digital libraries: a 2020 vision
Simon Tanner
 - Introduction
 - Technology trends
 - Ambient intelligence
 - The environment
 - Managing containers, content and context
 - Economic barriers in relation to context management
 - Financial sustainability
 - Collaboration
 - Open source
 - Open access
 - Digital divide
 - Conclusion
 - Notes
 - References