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2 Keynote Address
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... Journal subscription prices continue to escalate, yet university library budgets fail to keep pace, particularly in these days of economic challenges at both the federal and state level. The price inflation in electronic publication resources, estimated to be running at approximately 10 percent per year over the past decade,4 has continued to run well ahead of the consumer price index.
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... It opens vast possibilities, of course, but it challenges existing practices and principles, including the way in which we handle intellectual property. A new paradigm for scholarly 2 National Science Foundation.
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... A fourth area of concern is the commercialization of academic output, as the soaring commercial value of much of the intellectual property produced on the campuses raises very significant challenges to traditions such as openness and academic freedom. Finally, there are the issues of national security, which again call into the question of balancing scientific openness and with the restrictions on public information necessary for homeland security.


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