Tight budgets, rising access costs, and complex end-user needs are elements of the new paradigm facing today's corporate libraries and information centers. Innovative and cost-effective measures must be implemented by information professionals in order to preserve their organizations' current service offerings while maintaining the same quality and degree of access their end users expect. Ejournal subscriptions face a high degree of scrutiny from a budgetary perspective and are often the first to go if cuts are required. Fortunately, this measure can be avoided thanks to recent innovations from various vendors and publishers. Information professionals can successfully preserve end-user access while still meeting cost-cutting goals by adopting alternative access models such as article rental services or buying article downloads in bulk.
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