Is the "big deal" dead?

Serials Librarian

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 353-363

  Best, Rickey D ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big deals; College and university libraries; Electronic journals; Library consortia; Licensing agreements; Subscriptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949492930     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03615260903203702     Document Type: Article

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10. Ibid., 62.
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18. Ibid., 54.
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21. Ibid., 56.
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23. Ibid., 30.
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