Medical Bibliography, Publishing, and Libraries

Open access: implications for scholarly publishing and medical libraries.

PURPOSE The paper reviews and analyzes the evolution of the open access (OA) publishing movement and its impact on the traditional scholarly publishing model. PROCEDURES A literature survey and analysis of definitions of OA, problems with the current publishing model, historical developments, funding agency responses, stakeholder viewpoints, and implications for scientific libraries and publi...

Humanists, Libraries, Electronic Publishing, and the Future

WHILECOMPUTERIZATION HAS AFFECTED many library operations, it has had relatively little impact on most humanities work other than to make library collections more accessible within libraries (e.g., the OPAC) and among libraries (interlibrary loan systems). However, recent advances in technology are much more likely to have an immediate impact on arts and humanities work and its relationship wit...

Public Libraries in Africa: A Report and Annotated Bibliography

The synthesis of literature quoted in the bibliography and the country reports portrays the public library movement in Africa as being very weak, with numerous problems regarding financial constraints, lack of human resources, outdated materials and poor use. The only sector of the African population that uses public libraries is school children. However, each country report illustrated that ch...

A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

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