خلاصة:
The paper analyses relevant literature with a view to drawing attention to the challenges posed by publishers’ licenses on sustainable e-resources integration in academic libraries. To this end, two research objectives were formulated to guide the study in achieving its aims and a conceptual model developed for gaining insight into the fountainhead of the identified challenges. Accordingly, the study shows that: the proliferation of publishers’ business models, non-transferability of e-resources accesses/contents to a third party, the publishers’ ‘reserved right’ to draft e-resources agreements and to add or withdraw titles from packages without external input, dearth of academic titles in e-book packages etc. are due to publishers’ profit motive. Guided by this revelation, the study recommends the consolidation of publishers’ business models with a view to achieving uniformity of licenses, increasing affordability to ensure sustainability of e-resources integration in academic libraries.
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Inti rii‹itiona 1 Jourii‹il o]'In]'ormo tion Scien‹e and Mana$eiitent Vol. 15, No. 2, 2017, 79-66 Pricing Implication of Publishers' Licensing Models on Sustainable E-resources Integration in Academic Libraries: A Review Roland Izuagbe Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Graduate master student University of Ibadan, Nigeria rolec4u H yahoo.
com Abstract The paper analyses relevant literature with a view to drawing attention to the challenges posed by publishers’ licenses on sustainable e-resources integration in academic libraries.
Accordingly, the study shows that: the proliferation of publishers’ business models, non-transferability of e-resources accesses/contents to a third party, the publishers’ ‘reserved right’ to draft e-resources agreements and to add or withdraw titles from packages without external input, dearth of academic titles in e-book packages etc.
Guided by this revelation, the study recommends the consolidation of publishers’ business models with a view to achieving uniformity of licenses, increasing affordability to ensure sustainability of e-resources integration in academic libraries.
It is therefore the focus of the study to review relevant literature with a view to gaining insight into the challenges associated with publishers’ licensing models and their pricing implication on sustainable e-resources integration in academic libraries.
identify the challenges posed by the numerous publishers licensing models on sustainable e-resources integration in academic libraries.
The focus of this paper is to appraise relevant extant literature with a view to gaining insight into the challenges affecting e-resources integration in academic libraries with respect to publisher licensing models.