Library purchasing consortia: the UK periodicals supply market

Author characteristics in three medical library periodicals.

Purchasing Consortia and Electronic Markets - A Procurement Direction in Integrated Supply Chain Management

structured along the lines of: background, aim, method, results, conclusion – 150 – 200 words): In supply chain management literature, there has been little empirical research investigation on purchasing consortium issues focusing on a detailed analysis of information and communication (ICT) based procurement strategies. Based on the exploration of academic literature and two surveys among purc...

Metadata in a Digital Library of Periodicals

2 Resumen Este trabajo se dedica al análisis y diseño de una biblioteca digital de publicaciones periódicas y revistas científicas. Este tipo de bibliotecas se adscriben a un conjunto de aplicaciones sobre documentos históricos estructurados, el cual fue identificado en otros trabajos previos de los autores [Ara96][Ara97]. Estos problemas han sido abordados desde el punto de vista de las Abstra...

Nationwide Library Consortia Life Cycle

Nationwide Library Consortia Life Cycle PNINA SHACHAF School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Library consortia development processes were examined from an ecological approach, combining historical perspective, dynamic developmental approach, and social structure, stressing the issues of permeable boundaries in library consort...

Microbial consortia at steady supply

Metagenomics has revealed hundreds of species in almost all microbiota. In a few well-studied cases, microbial communities have been observed to coordinate their metabolic fluxes. In principle, microbes can divide tasks to reap the benefits of specialization, as in human economies. However, the benefits and stability of an economy of microbial specialists are far from obvious. Here, we physical...