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
Background to NESLIThe key element in NESLI is the letter E
It is important to recognise that NESLI is part of a bigger picture in the process of making available a wide range of electronic resources to UK higher educationinstitutions.The Joint InformationServices Committee (JISC)has created a Committee on ElectronicInformation (CEI).CEI, in its turn, has created the Content Working Group (&G) to formulate and overseeJISC's Collection Policy
The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER)is intended to be of benefit to a very wide range of user
Summary
Paper given at the UKSG seminar Consortia and Site Licensing: so far so good -but where is it leading?, London, January 1999. When the scholarly publishing industry is considered in its totality - a complex organisationwith a diversity of stakeholders and a turnover measured in billions - with its ongoing downward spiral of library journal cancellations followed by large subscription price rises, followed by more cancellations, followed by further price rises, it becomes apparent that change is not easy. In this presentation the argument is advanced that NESLI is not going to change the scholarly communicationprocess on its own, overnight, it is one of a number of change agents currently at work in the process of disturbing the industry
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