Re: Elsevier

["Lengyel, Florian " <flengyel@gc.cuny.edu>]

Alexander Kurz wrote:
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> An alternative way how libraries could support electronic publications
> arises from the following thoughts.
>
> What will or should be the role of libraries in the digital age?
>
> Certainly, buying and storing hardcopies will play a smaller and smaller
> role. So libraries should have an interest in finding something else to
> do, just to survive as institutions themselves. What could that be?
>
> I think university libraries could become publishers of electronic
> journals. Universities should have an interest to host these journals,
> because they provide prestige for little money.
>
> As a conclusion, maybe the libraries could be convinced to DO the
> `clerical support'.
>
> Alexander
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This would seem to involve  libraries in the business of system
administration.

The CUNY Graduate Center hosts a few online academic journals (e.g.,
http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/   http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/lljournal )
using the Open Journal Systems journal open source
management and publishing system ( URL:  http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs ).
The library here is not involved in either site administration, which
the IT department handles; or the management of the journals--the IT
department delegates this function to the journal editors.

FL



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