Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
As I understand it the structure of the seminar where this was originally presented was a bit like Beethoven’s Fifth
The need to pay back government debt will be inescapable and will seriously depress revenues for years to come, though a recovery in the stock market and the economy generally could mitigate the severity of the problems
In thinking about the overall economic situation it’s useful to think in terms of three separate but related factors:
Summary
“I tell you naught for your comfort”: budgetary prospects for academic libraries over the few years. The author speculates about the financial prospects for university libraries in the UK over the few years. The need to pay back government debt will be inescapable and will seriously depress revenues for years to come, though a recovery in the stock market and the economy generally could mitigate the severity of the problems. The endemic problem of journal price inflation needs to be tackled nationally and internationally
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