| The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues Contributor(s): Fong, Yem S. (Author), Ward, Suzanne M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789024411 ISBN-13: 9780789024411 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues focuses on different aspects of electronic resources for libraries, including statewide resource-sharing initiatives, licensing issues, open source software, standards, and scholarly publishing. This important resource will help you avoid many of the potential pitfalls of managing electronic content in the evolving modern library. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - General - Computers | Internet - General |
| Dewey: 025.002 |
| LCCN: 2004009974 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.98" W x 8.3" (0.53 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Keep up-to-date with the latest in innovative electronic information services 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. This book contains the wisdom and experience of professionals applying electronic resources to:
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