Economics as if science mattered: The BioOne business model and the transformation of scholarly publishing

Library Collections, Acquisition and Technical Services

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 231-239

  Fyffe, Richard C ^a   Shulenburger, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

BioOne; Electronic publishing; Library budgets; Public good economics; Scholarly communication; Scholarly societies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036392773     PISSN: 14649055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-9055(02)00246-4     Document Type: Article

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