5/17/2023 0 Comments Print therapyBut the journals system is increasingly looking like a house of cards, and electronics is shaking the foundations. The late Robert Maxwell built his empire on the lucrative business of publishing jour- nals, many of them obscure titles read by a few. Publishers face challenging times ahead too. Libraries increasingly act merely as bro- kers to squeeze better deals from publishers. Publishers and new electronic services are bypassing libraries and delivering sophisticated information products direct to users. Their traditional roles are being eroded on every front. The very existence of research libraries as we know them is in doubt. But it is only one of the profound changes in scholarly publishing that are just around the corner. In itself this move, expected to be increas- ingly followed by universities worldwide, is a revolution. It has decided to phase out print altogether, and deliver journals direct to staff desktops via the World-Wide Web.
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