The changing landscape for electronic resources content, access, delivery, and legal issues

• Other Authors: Fong, Yem S, Ward, Suzanne M
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Binghamton, NY Haworth Information Press 2004
• Subjects: Scholarly publishing > Electronic information resources > Special collections; Library cooperation; Digital libraries; Libraries > Special collections > Electronic information resources; Open source software; Interlibrary loans
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 The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues focuses on the effects and challenges of providing electronic resources for libraries. The authors are librarians and other professionals with practical experience in current issues and developing trends. With this book, you will learn about technical, legal, and resource sharing developments that will contribute to the future distribution of global information in libraries. This book shows how libraries using electronic resources can reduce costs and save transaction time for large and small public libraries as well as academic libraries. It also reveals recent initiatives related to open source software and core standards for resource sharing and interlibrary loal, such as the Bath profile and the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP). Special features of this timely book include figures, diagrams, references, and Web sites.