Access versus Ownership: How Real an Alternative Is It?

Ferguson, Anthony and Kathleen Kehoe. "Access versus Ownership: What Is Most Cost-effective in the Sciences". Journal of Library Administration 19 (2): 89-99 (1993).

Widdecombe, Richard P. "Eliminating All Journal Subscriptions Has Freed Our Customers to Seek Information They Really Want and Need: The Result - More Access, Not Less". Science and Technology Libraries 14 (1): 3-13 (1993).

Truesdell, Cheryl B. "Is Access a Viable Alternative to Ownership ? A Review of Access Performance". Journal of Academic Librarianship 20 (4): 200-206 (1994).

Advisory Panel for Science Journals. "The Cost Effectiveness of Science Journals". Publishing Research Quarterly 8 (3): 72-91 (1992).

Leach, Ronald G. and Judith E. Tribble. "Electronic Document Delivery: New Options of Libraries". Journal of Academic Librarianship 18 (6): 359-364 (1993).

Brown, David J. "Current Awareness and Document Delivery: The Changing Market". Serials 6 (3): 29-39 (1993).

Line, Maurice B. "Measuring the Performance of Document Supply Systems". Interlending and Document Supply 16 (3): 81-88 (1988).

Mansfield, John. "Availability Studies in Libraries". Library and Information Science Research 8 (4): 299-314 (1986).

Chaudhry, Abdus and Soleh Ashoor. "Comprehensive Materials Availability Studies in Academic Libraries". Journal of Academic Librarianship 20 (5/6): 300-305 (1994).

Several recent American articles compare the performance of library suppliers with commercial suppliers. See Miller, Connie and Patricia Tegler. "An Analysis of Interlibrary Loan and Commercial Document Supply Performance". Library Quarterly 58 (4): 352-266 (1988); Kurosman, Kathleen and Barbara Ammerman Durniak. "Document Delivery: A Comparison of Commercial Document Suppliers and Interlibrary Loan Suppliers". College and Research Libraries 55 (2): 129-139 (1994); and Pederson, Wayne and David Gregory. "Interlibrary Loan and Commercial Document Supply: Finding the Right Fit". Journal of Academic Librarianship 20 (5/6): 263-272 (1994). No clear advantage in the use of either one or the other emerges from these studies, which show the expected large differences in cost and performance between different commercial suppliers.

Sumsion, John. Average Price of British Academic Books, January-June 1995. Loughborough: LISU, 1995 (LISU British Academic Book Prices Report No. 17); Average Prices of USA Academic Books, January-June 1995. Loughborough, LISU, 1995 (LISU USA Academic Book Prices Report No. 17).

These are rather lower than the average figures calculated for US libraries, which are USD 18.62 for the requester and USD 10.93 for the supplier. See Roche, Marilyn M. ARGIRLG Interlibrary Loan Cost Study. Washington DC : Association of Research Libraries and Research Libraries Group, 1993.

Goosen, Eleanor and Suzanne Iving. "Ownership versus Access and Low-use Periodical Titles." Library Resources and Technical Services 39 (1): 43-52 (1995).

Wessels, R.H.A. "Optimizing the Size of Journal Collections ." Interlending and Document Supply 23 (3): 18-21 (1995).

Widdicombe , op. cit.

Steele, Colin. "Publish or Perish/Converge or Die? The Future of Scientific Information Access (Electronically)". Information Management Report, February, 1995.