Competition and cooperation: Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 181-185

  Odlyzko, Andrew ^a  

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EID: 33749823618     PISSN: 11989742     EISSN: 17101166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jsp-030-04-163     Document Type: Article

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