The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the 'Big Deal'

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5965
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Frazier, Kenneth
Journal:	D-Lib Magazine
Volume:	7
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Date:	2001
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5965
Sector:	Information & Knowledge
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Subject(s):	information libraries prisoner's dilemma public goods and bads game theory
Abstract:	"Simply put, the Big Deal is an online aggregation of journals that publishers offer as a one-price, one size fits all package. In the Big Deal, libraries agree to buy electronic access to all of a commercial publisher's journals for a price based on current payments to that publisher, plus some increment. Under the terms of the contract, annual price increases are capped for a number of years."

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