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The JIBS Debate
Friday 13 November, Staff House conference suite, Sackville Street Campus,
University of Manchester
A & I: R.I.P.?
As institutional budgets come under increasing pressure, will abstracting
and indexing services survive, and do they deserve to? Services such as
Science Direct report that the majority of links to their articles come from
Google or Google Scholar. Do our academics, researchers and students simply
want Google Scholar attached to a huge PDF dump? If so, why spend valuable
funds on anything else?
This JIBS debate will examine the issues and also consider if new services
like Summon will challenge Google.
For more information the event and a booking form please see
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/airip/programme.htm
The debate and lunch are FREE to members of organisations that are JIBS
members and 50 GBP to non members. To find out if your Institution is a
member, please see http://www.jibs.ac.uk/aboutus/jibs-members.php
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Sue Cumberpatch
Chair, JIBS User Group
Library & Archives
University of York
YORK YO10 5DD, UK
Tel : +44 (0)1904 433891
Email : [log in to unmask]
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