At 02:54 PM 7/12/99 -0400, Thomas J. Walker wrote:
>Hal Varian suggested that those interested in costs of digitization should
>see Richard Lemberg's 1996 UC Berkeley thesis on that subject, and that
>"JSTOR did some calculations with the same conclusion, which are reported
>in part by a speech from Bill Bowen, which, I believe, is available on the
>JSTOR Web site."
>
>I failed to find either on the Web
I believe the paper referred to is
Bowen, William
JSTOR and the Economics of Scholarly Communication
Council on Library Resources Conference,Washington, DC, September 18, 1995
and it's at
http://www.mellon.org/jsesc.html
The UK Higher Education Digitisation Service no doubt has some data too. I
don't know if any papers give what you are looking for, but try the list of
papers at
http://heds.herts.ac.uk/HEDCinfo/Papers.html
Steve Hitchcock
Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Email: sh94r_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (01)703 593256 Fax: +44 (01)703 592865
Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 19:17:43 GMT