Report of the Scholarly Communications Task Force
| dc.contributor.author | McMillan, Gail | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Metz, Paul | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Powell, James | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Zarnosky, Maggie | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-13T20:31:05Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-11-13T20:31:05Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 1994-05-10 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This report was distributed at the May 12th meeting of the Library Administrative Council (LAC) and put on the agenda for discussion at its next meeting. On May 19, 1994 this report was discussed, many of the questions it raised were answered and all of its recommendations were approved for implementation. This version of the report contains annotations (made June 24, 1994), especially to include answers to questions posed, and describes further activities of this task force. | en |
| dc.description.notes | Since University Libraries' initial efforts to provide access to electronic journals in 1991, much has happened in this area of scholarly communications, not the least of which is the rapidly growing number of journals freely available via the Internet. In 1991, the ARL directory of electronic journals listed 27, with only seven of these being refereed. Today there are over 50 such titles and nearly half of them are refereed. Our library currently provides access to 12 electronic journals, double the number of experimental subscriptions placed in 1991. University Libraries at Virginia Tech is one of the relatively few libraries that has fully accepted electronic publications as a true scholarly resource and provided access for its academic community... | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80375 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | en |
| dc.title | Report of the Scholarly Communications Task Force | en |
| dc.type | Report | en |