Peter Suber points to this discussion: "With libraries paying more and more each year in subscription fees for on-line databases, what are librarians doing to drive traffic to these resources rather than to Google and the web?" If it were up to me, universities and research organizations would cease buying books and periodicals, spending the money instead to fund online access of their own materials. That way, everybody would gain access to everything, and the overall cost would drop sharply. But would librarians actively work against public access by supporting these online databases instead? There isn't a lot of discussion on this thread, but the issue is well worth a few moments' thought.
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