Document (#10760)

Author

Line, M.B.

Title

Who pays for information? : And why should they?

Source

Information superhighway: the role of librarians, information scientists, and intermediaries. Festschrift in honor of Frederick Wilfred Lancaster. 17th International Essen Symposium, 24.-27.10.1994. Ed. A.H. Helal et al

Imprint

Essen : Universitätsbibliothek

Year

1995

Pages

S.262-275

Series

Publications of Essen University Library; 18

Abstract

Big changes in the economic and political climate have affected attitudes to paying for the provision of and access to information. However, the scholarly publication system is not a true market one, Nearly all of the costs that occur at the various points in the information production and access chain are ultimately borne by institutions, though research bodies may fund some of them. The interesting question is whether charging mechanisms within the chain can significantly affects the system. Charging users usually results in their institution paying. The market signals given by charging are of limited value; waste may be reduced, but some waste in information provision is necessary; and it is dangerous to make charges as a matter of expediency rather than principle. The provision of access to users in the Third World should be regarded as an investment in a long term market and in political stability. Information is expensive, but not unaffordably so

Theme

Informationsdienstleistungen

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