Supply and demand issues surrounding scholarly journals take centre stage in the April 2008 issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly Report, no. 257, it has been reported. Articles examine the outlook for e-only journal publishing, faculty expectations for library journal collections, and a proposal from a community of scientists for a new funding approach to provide open access to the core journals in their discipline.
Other topics covered in this issue are ARL's web guide to the NIH Public Access Policy; NISO's best practices for Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU); and a tribute to retiring ARL Executive Director Duane E. Webster by University of Oklahoma's Dean of Libraries, Sul H. Lee.
The issue is freely available online at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br257.shtml.
ARL is a nonprofit organisation of 123 research libraries in North America. It seeks to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve.
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