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Maskell, Catherine.

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Consortia activity in academic libraries: Anti-competitive or in the public good?

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Consortia activity in academic libraries: Anti-competitive or in the public good?/
Author:	Maskell, Catherine.
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3650.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	Education, Higher. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR30725
ISBN:	9780494307250

Consortia activity in academic libraries: Anti-competitive or in the public good?
Maskell, Catherine.

Consortia activity in academic libraries: Anti-competitive or in the public good? - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3650.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2006.

Keywords. academic libraries, consortia, competition, public good, scholarly publishing cycle.

ISBN: 9780494307250Subjects--Topical Terms:

543175
Education, Higher.

Consortia activity in academic libraries: Anti-competitive or in the public good?
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520 $a Academic library consortia activity has become an integral part of academic libraries' operations. Consortia have come to assert considerable bargaining power over publishers and have provided libraries with considerable economic advantage. They interact with publishers both as consumers of publishers' products, with much stronger bargaining power than individual libraries hold, and, increasingly, as rival publishers themselves. Are the existence and evolving roles of consortia changing the relationship between academic libraries and publishers or continuing their traditional roles? Is the role of academic library consortia such that it should attract the attention of competition policy regulators? Competition policy prohibits buying and selling cartels that can negatively impact the free market on which the Canadian economic system, like other Western economies, depends. Competition policy as part of economic policy is, however, only relevant where we are concerned with aspects of the market economy. Traditionally, public goods for the greater social and cultural benefit of society are not considered part of the market economic system. If the activities of academic library consortia are part of that public good perspective, competition policy may not be a relevant concern. Using evidence gained from in-depth interviews from a national sample of University Librarians and from interviews with the relevant federal government policy-makers, this research establishes whether library consortia are viewed as participating in the market economy of Canada or not. Are consortia viewed by librarians and government as serving a public good role of providing information for a greater social and cultural benefit or are they seen from a market-economic perspective of changing power relations with publishers? Findings show government has little awareness of the activities of academic library consortia, even though it provided significant financial support for their formation and growth. University Librarians view consortia from a public good perspective but also as having an important future role in library operations and in changing the existing scholarly publishing paradigm. One-third of librarian respondents felt that future consortia could compete with publishers by becoming publishers and through initiatives such as open source institutional repositories. Librarians also felt that consortia have had a positive effect on librarians' professional roles through the facilitation of knowledge-building and collaboration opportunities outside of the home institution.
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