This book, first published in 1999, analyses the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like science fiction twenty years ago into a library fact of life today. It shows that while electronic publication greatly speeds issuance of important scientific results of enduring value, it also has the potential to lower the economic threshold at which crank papers and marginal publications can gain a wide, if sadly misled audience, in the short run. It demonstrates that while scientists invented the web, they no longer control it, and that even the very largest research organizations, libraries, publishers, and journal aggregators, will, to a substantial degree, be at the technological and economic mercy of commercial users of the web.
| ISBN: | 9780367422400 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2021 |
| Author: | Tony Stankus |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science |
| Genres: |
IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries |
This book, first published in 1999, analyses the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like science fiction twenty years ago into a library fact of life today. It shows that while electronic publication greatly speeds issuance of important scientific results of enduring value, it also has the potential to lower the economic threshold at which crank papers and marginal publications can gain a wide, if sadly misled audience, in the short run. It demonstrates that while scientists invented the web, they no longer control it, and that even the very largest research organizations, libraries, publishers, and journal aggregators, will, to a substantial degree, be at the technological and economic mercy of commercial users of the web.
Electronic Expectations features in the following genres: IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries
Electronic Expectations is available in Paperback, Hardback
Electronic Expectations was written by Tony Stankus and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Electronic Expectations has 212 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science series
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