Pam Dennis thinks twice before she buys a book these days. She’s the library director at tiny Lambuth University, a Methodist institution in Jackson, TN, with an enrollment of about 750 students. She must stretch a budget of $100,000 to pay “for everything,” she says. Her staff catalogs only 100 to 150 titles a year, a tiny fraction of the new titles published.
A program of Oxford University Press eases the jobs of budget-conscious library directors like Ms. Dennis. It gives subscribers access to a browsable database that contains the complete texts of more than 1,000 Oxford monographs, in four areas: economics and finance, political science, philosophy, and religion. As a result, participating institutions no longer have to shell out for print copies of Oxford titles in order to make them available to faculty members and students. More from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Recent Comments