Author Tony Stankus, focuses on the advantages to users - and ultimately society - of access to a good assortment of science journals, providing practical information for librarians on effectively managing their resources. He explains how to understand and manage the foreign publication situation by focusing on alternatives to expensive foreign journals and looking at international publishing patterns. In the final section, Stankus explores how technology and competition are improving today's science journals. "Scientific Journals" encourages librarians to sharpen their strategic vision - to see the importance of science for US competitiveness and the role that science journals play in this - and tactical thinking - ideas for promoting US university press titles and Canadian journals instead of the most expensive European for-profit titles.
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