A different business model for document delivery. - Oren Sreebny's Weblog: [ECAR 2006] John Willinsky - Sustaining Access to Knowledge and Scholarly Publishing notes that Google is offering to scan back copies of journals and share adword advertising revenue with publishers. Only one journal has taken this up.

Also notes: The situation is one of corporate concentration. John Wiley just offered to [now has] purchase[d] Blackwell. This creates a publishing house of 1200 journals. Reed-Elsevier, 2000 journals, etc. 6000 titles owned by four corporate entities. Libraries are having to buy in bundles of titles, having to sign non-disclosure agreements on the pricing. Only very few of those bundles allow you to cancel single titles.

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