Economics of Digital Information

Collection, Storage, and Delivery

University of Oklahoma Libraries, University of Oklahoma Foundation, Sul H. Lee (Autoren)

Sul H. Lee (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

117 Seiten

1998
Haworth Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7890-0369-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A collection of papers delivered at the 1997 conference, "Economics of Digital Information: Collection, Storage, and Delivery," sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries and the University of Oklahoma Foundation, this book explores evolving legal and economic models of licensing and pricing in the digital domain to help librarians incorporate the digitization of their collections into their libraries'strategic planning and policy setting frameworks. The contributing authors of Economics of Digital Information: Collection, Storage, and Delivery highlight key concepts and issues vital to a library's successful venture into the digital environment and help you understand why the transition from the printed page to the digital packet has been problematic for both creators of proprietary materials and users of those materials.The challenges to digitizing your collection are many, but as Economics of Digital Information illustrates, your efforts will be more than amply rewarded. Through helpful, guiding pages, this book prepares you for the challenges with its insightful discussions on: getting the rhetoric of revolutionary change out of digitization articulating a vision that will appeal to everyone in an organization approaches to pricing electronic subscriptions information provision, aggregators, and content providers several emerging business models for digital commerce how a whole new business of 'wholesaling'excess advertisement space has developed the need for creating a distributed national or international digital research collection guidelines for the collaborative acquisition of electronic information resources for the libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities financing digital storage consortial approaches to license negotiations using the CIC as a model for library activity the long-term storage of digital informationYou'll find Economics of Digital Information a comforting referral source for answering your questions as you immerse your library in the digital environment. The issues at stake will become clearer and your hesitancy will be dissolved as the book's practical, steady advice steers you through the steps of converting print-on-paper to digital formats.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.1998
• Verlagsort: Binghamton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 165 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 408 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• ISBN-10: 0-7890-0369-4 / 0789003694
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7890-0369-0 / 9780789003690
• Zustand: Neuware