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On the costs of journal subscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Rodney M. Feldmann
Rodney M. Feldmann*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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University librarians are raising an increasingly loud cry of anguish as a result of the soaring costs of scientific journals. Recently, this problem has been forcefully driven home by a spate of articles (Holden, 1987; Parmater, 1988; Ruschin, 1988; Turner, 1989) in a variety of sources suggesting that one of the primary consequences of this increasing cost must be cancellation of library subscriptions. As a long-time member of a geology departmental library committee and as an ex-editor of the Journal of Paleontology, I feel it is appropriate to comment on this problem and to offer some suggestions regarding approaches to ameliorate the problem.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 63 , Issue 6 , November 1989 , pp. 958
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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