Scholarly Communication • Growing gap between price of information & the ability to pay • Explosion in knowledge, both formats and volume • Commercialization of STM information • Publishing industry consolidation • Circle of gifts vs. market economy (Google Library)
King and Tennopir, 2000 (一) Towards Electronic Journals “Over the past 25 years individual subscriptions to STM journals have declined dramatically”
King and Tennopir (二) In 1977 • the average scientist had 5. 8 personal subscriptions • 68% of article read ings came from personal subscriptions Today • the average scientist has 2. 2 personal subscriptions • 27% of readings come from personal subscriptions, 55 percent from library subscriptions