A quantitative study of the impacts on library budgets, expenditures on books vs serials, and overall collection development of different types of libraries, resulting from publishers' practice of marketing "the big deal", i.e. the bundling of journals and e-journals in…

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In 1581 Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) returned to his home after a long and sinuous journey to Rome, which led him across Europe for more than eighteen months. While in…