Title: Cutting out the middle man? : disintermediation and the academic library

Authors: Ball, David

Place: London

Publisher: Association of Commonwealth universities (ACU). Libraries & information network

Year: 2012

Journal: Link : connecting Commonwealth librarians

Volume: 14

PAGE: 2--3

Subject: Librarianship in the South

Keywords: information management, scientific literature, university and college libraries

Abstract: Big Deals, open access, and digitisation increasingly mean that selection decisions are being removed from librarians and transferred to the end user. The author looks at the forces pushing towards this ‘disintermediation’ and considers the future role of the academic library.

URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/17577/

Document type: E-article