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R. Carr The Academic Research Library in a Decade of Change. London: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited, 2007. ISBN 978-1843342458 (pbk): £39.95, 237pp.

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R. Carr The Academic Research Library in a Decade of Change. London: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited, 2007. ISBN 978-1843342458 (pbk): £39.95, 237pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2007

Lesley Dingle
Affiliation:
Foreign & International Law Librarian Squire Law LibraryCambridge University

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References

1 Joint Information Systems Committee

2 Consortium of University Research Libraries

3 North American Research Libraries Group

4 Standing Conference of National and University Libraries

5 Carr quotes an annual figure for a single e-Science project of 10 petabytes [1 petabyte = 1015 bytes].

6 Along with the universities of Michigan, Stanford and Harvard, and New York Public Library http://www.policybandwidth.com/doc/googleprint.pdf

7 see Epstein, 2006 “What Light if any does the Google Print Dispute shed on Intellectual Property Law?”, The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, 2006 (VII) http://www.stlr.org/html/volume7/epstein.pdf

8 Copyright holders have to opt out, rather than have permission asked of them e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4395656.stm

9 Carr cites statistics to show large increases in book markets in the US and UK in recent years (p. 120).