(ingentaconnect.com): ‘If it isn’t online, it doesn’t exist’ seems to be the accepted wisdom in scholarly publishing today. Access to content can be complex and difficult; even making it free does not ensure that users discover it, since free content may not be represented in library tools. Most publishers make some effort to address this: engaging with the ready-made audiences of hosting services, full-text aggregators and subscription agent gateways; distributing metadata to subject-specific indexing databases; allowing search engines and document delivery providers to index full-text content; sharing holdings information with libraries and developers of eresource management tools.
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