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The impact of consortia purchasing of periodical publications on the document supply service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Purpose – This paper aims to show the impact of consortia purchased periodical publications on document supply services. These services have undergone considerable changes over the last five years, first decreasing but now recovering.
Pacios Lozano, Ana Reyes   +1 more
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Quality of Online Chat Reference Answers Differ between Local and Consortium Library Staff: Providing Consortium Staff with More Local Information Can Mitigate these Differences

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2010
A Review of: Meert, D.L., & Given, L.M. (2009). Measuring quality in chat reference consortia: A comparative analysis of responses to users’ queries.” College & Research Libraries, 70(1), 71-84.
Laura Newton Miller
doaj   +1 more source

Library Consortia in Nigeria and the Place of ICT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Library Consortia implies the coming together of two or more libraries in a formal agreement to share their resources. The essence is that no library can boast of acquiring all the published literature in the world to render effective and efficient ...
Adewole-Odeshi, Egbe   +2 more
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Measuring library consortia performance

open access: yes, 2021
This conference paper was presented at the 14th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, 2-4 November 2021. A services performance measurement should be a major concern of any library consortium because it is a useful tool in the ever antagonizing world of limited library resources.
Gonda, Thalia, Papatheodorou, Christos
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New Strategies in Library Services Organization: Consortia University Libraries in Spain

open access: yesInformation Technology and Libraries, 2017
New political, economic, and technological developments, as well as the growth of information markets, in Spain have created a foundation for the creation of library consortia.
Miguel Duarte Barrionuevo
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Microbial Consortia for Effective Biocontrol of Root and Foliar Diseases in Tomato

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2021
The use of beneficial microorganisms for the biological control of plant diseases and pests has emerged as a viable alternative to chemical pesticides in agriculture.
Zhivko Minchev   +3 more
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The E-rate Program and Libraries and Library Consortia, 2000-2004: Trends and Issues

open access: yesInformation Technology and Libraries, 2005
The E-rate program has provided tremendous benefits to libraries, allowing many libraries and library systems to acquire technological equipment and services that would otherwise be too expensive, increasing the availability of public Internet access ...
Paul T. Jaeger   +2 more
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Preparing institutions for the transition: consortial cost-sharing models in transformative agreements in Austria

open access: yesInsights: The UKSG Journal
Over the past ten years, the member institutions of the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) have gradually opened up their researchers’ publications to the world, one publisher at a time.
Rita Pinhasi, Brigitte Kromp
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Managing the market place: the consortium approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
The funding context of higher education is examined, together with some of the constraints and imperatives to which it gives rise. The history, constitution and operation of the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium's Libraries Project ...
Ball, David, Wright, Susan
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Academic Library Consortia in South Africa : where we come from and where we are heading [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The purpose of this article is to give an overview of the establishment of the five academic library consortia in South Africa, their status quo, and a summary of their successes and plans for the future. Although useful information can be found from the
Fourie, I, Thomas, G M E
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