Chapter 6: What Can Be Done?

Abstract

There are two fundamental aspects to Big Deals as a problem: the extent to which bundling distorts and limits library collection policies and can distort the growth of serials publishing, and the continuing growth of serials costs at much higher rates than inflation, which forces many libraries to reduce other acquisitions and other spending. Chapter 6 of
Library Technology Reports
(vol. 50, no. 4) considers some possible approaches to improving the situation.