The economics of online   Edited by Peter Bysouth     ISBN 0 947568 14 X 1987 £25.00/US$46.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   MAKING THE CHOICE   Terminal costs for on-line searching John Wish, Craig Collins and Vance Jacobson   Cost-effectiveness comparison of manual and on-line and manual bibliographic information retrieval T. Flynn, P.A. Holohan, M.S. Magson and J.D. Munro   Some factors affecting choice of host systems A.M. Batten   Prices and online searching: the cheapest host is not always the one you think T. Baiget     COUNTING THE COSTS   The cost of on-line bibliographic searching Michael D. Cooper and Nancy A. DeWath   Improvements in cost effectiveness in on-line searching. I. Predictive model based on search cost analysis J.R. Almond and C.H. Nelson   Modelling on-line cost-effectiveness M.S. Magson   An aid to calculating search costs on-line N.R. Smith   Measuring incremental costs of information Ronald R. Dueltgen and A. Rahman Khan   On-line searching: costly or cost effective? A marketing perspective Ronald G. Dunn and Harry F. Boyle   Applying benefit-cost analysis to online ready reference: the Los Angeles public library experience Judith A. Truelson     ASSESSING THE BENEFITS   Improvements in cost-effectiveness in on-line searching J.R. Almond and C.H. Nelson   Costs and benefits to industry of online literature searches Rebecca J. Jensen, Herbert O. Asbury and Radford G. King   Cost effectiveness of on-line searching of chemical information: an industrial viewpoint Robert E. Buntrock     FACING A DILEMMA   The effect of user fees on the cost of on-line searching in libraries Michael D. Cooper and Nancy A. DeWath   Fees for online searches: a review of the issue and a discussion of alternatives James Rice Jr   Free online reference and fee-based on-line search services: allies, not antagonists Carolyn G. Weaver   Charging for online services: the questions and arguments from an academic library point of view D.H. Revill     PREDICTING FUTURE TRENDS   Long-term economics of on-line services and their relationship to conventional publishers seen from the database producers' viewpoint H.R. Collier   The cost of literature search in 1985 T.P. Barwise   The impact of online services on subscriptions to printed publications F.W. Lancaster and H. Goldhor   Factors affecting future online services Audrey Clayton   Economics of database enhancement Loene Trubkin   Pricing strategies and impacts on producers, vendors and users A.W. Elias   Main trends in royalty policy of database producers M. Wolff-Terroine, L. Ghiradi and B. Marx