I comment as a professional academic librarian. I was the cochair of princeton's collection development committee on electronic resources from the day it started.
The typical budget today for e-resources for a major university is on the order of three to six million dollars a year, mainly for science journals and databases. The most expensive subscriptions to the works of a single publisher can be over one million dollars, and there are individual databases in the fifty to one hundred-thousand dollar range. A typical budget for a good undergraduate college might be one million; it will not have the most expensive journals.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:11 AM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
We need to get someone who's more of a professional librarian to look at this and comment. What are typical university library online reference access budgets like, for example?
Phoebe?
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