<div dir="ltr"><div>Green Open Access as a survival strategy for libraries:</div><div><br></div><div>
<p align="LEFT">The academic library has, by default, tied its destiny
to a service with no realistic prospects of long-term survival. It
has become a systems integrator that stitches together outsourced
components into a digital recreation of a paper-based library. This
horseless carriage provides the same commodity service to an
undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, a graduate student in
economics, and a professor of literature. Because it overwhelms the
library's budget, organizational structure, and decision-making
processes, this expensive and inefficient service hampers innovation
in areas that are the library's best hope for survival.</p><p align="LEFT">Continue at <a href="http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/10/where-puck-wont-be.html">http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/10/where-puck-wont-be.html</a></p>
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