New Hall Cambridge, 7 - 9 July 2003
Presentations
Tuesday, 8th July
11.45 David Brown
Is this the end of the "Article Economy"?
DAVID BROWN has been head of Publisher Relations
at the British Library during the past six months. Prior
to that he was Director of Strategy at Ingenta since the
company’s inception. He has spent ten years as a consultant
to the information industry, prior to which he worked with
Faxon in the US and Elsevier in Amsterdam. He has undertaken
research into document delivery from several aspects over
the years and has published many papers on the subject.
Synopsis
The presentation - Is this the end of the “Article
Economy” – looks at the various challenges facing document
delivery in the changing scholarly information world. These
challenges include adapting to the new and increasingly
powerful technologies which are making the network bigger
and all-pervasive. This in turn has had its affect on research
behaviour, with greater multiformat, multimedia options
being demanded by the end user. An end user who, by and
large, still does not pay for individual articles. At the
same time new ways of publishing have emerged on the back
of the open archives movement which enable articles to be
accessed and delivered for free.
Whilst these and related changes are taking
place, the British Library has adapted to the new circumstances.
It has focused on making internal efficiencies that much
greater. It has sought publisher acceptance of electronic
document delivery through providing a mechanism for secure
EDD (in a joint project with Elsevier and Adobe). It has
actively sought new markets, and is attempting to entice
new and currently disenfranchised users back into the system
by offering better navigational tools.
These and other challenges and responses will
be outlined during the presentation.
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