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Joint ICSU PressUNESCO Exp ert Conference on ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING IN SCIENCE UNESCO Paris February A Librarians View of Some Economic Issues in Electronic Scientic Publishing Ann Okerson Asso ciate University Librarian Yale University New Haven CT USA Intro duction fer a range of views but even the most optimistic lo ok with concern on early library studies that suggest that digital costs at least digital transition costs will b e high It is imp ortant to know how librarians see the eco indeed Lowry At the same time it must b e ad nomics of electronic publishing but it is equally imp or mitted that all such assessments to date are at least pre tant to recognize that there is no one right view of mature and incomplete and quite p ossibly very wrong this topic Rather there are p erceptions and values dif There are as yet very few examples in place of a sys ferently held by dierent players in the scholarly and tem for original creation and pro duction of high quality scientic communications system If here we b egin by electronic pro ducts that do es not at some level imitate seeking to privilege or disprivilege any view we will printed journals and b o oks Further there has b een surely end in bickering A more fruitful approach is to only a limited market p erio d to allow consumers indi recognize that all parties have legitimate interests and viduals or institutions devoted to research and teaching