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“Libraries Abandon Expensive ‘Big Deal’ Subscription Packages to Multiple Journals”

July 25, 2011

Some U.S. research libraries say they can’t keep footing the bills for broad access to journals from big commercial publishers like Elsevier and Wiley. I talked to a couple of libraries who’ve brokered new minideals” and how faculty members have reacted to reduced access (hint: better than feared).”

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