RML Rendezvous March 12 – Journal Pricing, Libraries and (Open) Access

Posted by Mahria Lebow on March 6th, 2014 Posted in: News From NNLM PNR

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March 12, 2013 at 1 PM Pacific (noon Alaska 2 PM Mountain)

Twenty five years ago the Association of Research Libraries began calling attention to the “serials crisis” – an alarming upward pricing trend that has continued through the large-scale, revolutionary introduction of electronic journals in the 1990’s and subsequent development of “big deal” journal bundling practices by a small number of dominant commercial publishing companies. This presentation will provide an overview of journal pricing economics and trends, introduce the Open Access paradigm as an alternative to high journal prices and bundling, and explore current Open Access developments.

To attend go to http://webmeeting.nih.gov/rendezvous and login as a Guest, using your own name.  Once logged into the web meeting, a pop-up box allows you to put in your phone number and the program will call you. If this does not happen, just call the 800 number and use the participant code given in the Notes box on the screen.

If you are unable to tune in live, we invite you to view a recording of the webcast, posted to the Rendezvous website later.

As part of our Federal agency services regarding electronic and information technology resources being accessible to people with disabilities, closed captioning is available on this and future RML Rendezvous webcasts.